I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's bec….
It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest ord….
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word..
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce..
Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touche….
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it..
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism..
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel..
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances..
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases..
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field..
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judge….
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so..
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power..
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might..
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power..
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power..
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the v….
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism canno….
To be a complete victim may be another source of power..
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power..