Quotes about Power

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

"Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless."

"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."

"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."

"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love."

"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"Knowledge is power."

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -John Dalberg"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated."

"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future."

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks."

"Power ought to serve as a check to power."

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

"The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!"

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."

"The greatest power is often simple patience."

"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."

"Unlimited power corrupts the possessor."

"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."

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

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."

"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."

"Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions."

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."

"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."

"I cured with the power that came through me."

"In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power."