The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. Herodotus
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. David Brinkley
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. Diana Ross
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. Margaret J. Wheatley
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Rush Limbaugh
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. Rush Limbaugh
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men. Rush Limbaugh
Words derive their power from the original word. Meister Eckhart
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Walter Scott
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. Eric Cantor
Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. Vladimir Lenin
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. Clarke
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. Isabel Allende
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. John Stuart Mill
There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. Doris Humphrey
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life. Thomas Hobbes
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. William Penn
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. Tom Stoppard
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. Tom Stoppard