5,584 Quotes About Power

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Continued observations in clinical psychological practice lead almost inevitably to the conclusion that deeper and more fundamental than sexuality, deeper than the craving for social power, deeper even than the desire for possessions, there is a still more generalized and universal craving in the human make-up. It is the craving for knowledge of the right direction - for orientation.