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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.
Barney Frank on power

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler on power

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks on power

Excessive fear is always powerless.
Aeschylus on power

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Friedrich Schiller on power

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

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese on power

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.
Richard J. Daley on power

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon on power

I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk on power

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams on power

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza on power

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
Denis Diderot on power

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner on power

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
Don DeLillo on power

The greatest power is often simple patience.
E. Joseph Cossman on power

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on power

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Don DeLillo on power

A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille on power

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus on power