Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott on power
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. Andrew Jackson on power
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell on power
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton on power
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli on power
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Richard Dawkins on power
What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. Alexander Graham Bell on power
Everything is generated through your own will power. Ray Bradbury on power
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Peter Drucker on power
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. James A. Baldwin on power
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. Billy Graham on power
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. Theodore Bikel on power
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar on power
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William E. Gladstone on power
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. Louisa May Alcott on power
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. Marcus Tullius Cicero on power
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes on power
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke on power
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. Theodor Adorno on power