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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli on power

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
Edward Abbey on power

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert on power

Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore de Balzac on power

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Arnold Schwarzenegger on power

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on power

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

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth on power

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker on power

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir on power

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal on power

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth on power

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Charles de Gaulle on power

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Eric Hoffer on power

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.
Aung San Suu Kyi on power

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie on power

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer on power

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo on power

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Aneurin Bevan on power

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Aeschylus on power