Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. Kofi Annan
Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. Kenny Loggins
'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in. Hillary Clinton
Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. Alexander Hamilton
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. George Orwell
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Huxley
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. Bertrand Russell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. James Madison
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
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
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. Bertrand Russell
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton