Quotes on Power

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

A word after a word after a word is power.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.