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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
James Madison on power

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka on power

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy on power

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison on power

In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Marianne Williamson on power

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck on power

It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on power

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky on power

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Simone de Beauvoir on power

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac on power

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas on power

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen on power

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley on power

You can't trust anybody with power.
Newt Gingrich on power

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck Palahniuk on power

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli on power

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli on power

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Robert Downey, Jr. on power

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin on power

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli on power