Quotes about Power

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

John Dalberg-Acton

The only power fear has is the power you give it.

Steve Maraboli

Nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

Friedrich Hayek

Who controls the past, [...] controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

Agatha Christie

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality... and fall.

Frank Herbert

Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Plato

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Lajos Kossuth

Be not afraid of greatness [...]. Some are born great, [...] some achieve greatness, [...] and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

Michel de Montaigne

Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

James Madison

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

Anthony Robbins