Quotes about Power

A uranium-producing country cannot be neutral.

Denis William Brogan

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Mahatma Gandhi

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Brooks Adams

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

George Eliot

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

Martin Luther

Though ships bob on the surface
And oceans run beneath us
It is the water rules.

Sándor Petőfi

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Benjamin Disraeli

Status and dominance can fade but a friend will be there through thick and thin.

Steven Pinker

When you got big enough to be noticed, you got big enough to come gunning for.

Stephen King

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

Anthony Robbins

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

James Madison

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

William Shakespeare