Power Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
– Edmund Burke

“The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.”
– Abigail Adams

“Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whate’er it touches.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
– George Washington

“Power? It’s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.”
– Harold Macmillan

“The power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
– Orson Scott Card

“Power tires only those who do not have it.”
– Giulio Andreotti

“O how feeble is man’s power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!”
– John Donne

“Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.”
– Dean Koontz

“Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
– John Adams

“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.”
– Frank Herbert

“With great power there must also come great responsibility.”
– Stan Lee

“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
– J.K. Rowling

“Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won’t do the job without it.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
– Charles Horton Cooley

“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”
– Frank Herbert

“Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.”
– Honore de Balzac

“Even the wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face of the same colour.”
– Walter Savage Landor

“That power is in vain which is never in use.”
– Benjamin Whichcote

“I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people’s sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.”
– Don DeLillo

“Power: a currency that never went out of style.”
– Dan Simmons

“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.”
– Edward Counsel

“True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“Absolute power was not meant for man.”
– William E. Channing

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