5,584 Quotes About Power

He's flint, you're tinder.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

I only want power so I can get books.

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

I can give her no greater power than she has already, said the woman; don't you see how strong that is? How men and animals are obliged to serve her, and how well she has got through the world, barefooted as she is. She cannot receive any power from me greater than she now has, which consists in her own purity and innocence of heart. If she cannot herself obtain access to the Snow Queen, and remove the glass fragments from little Kay, we can do nothing to help her.

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage