The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone

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Will it, and set to work briskly.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Baldwin, James

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The law always limits every power it gives.

Hume, David

20.

Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.

Archimedes

21.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

Billings, Josh

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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]

Bible

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Hendrix, Jimi

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Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Dante Alighieri

25.

To achieve, you need thought.You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

Rand, Ayn

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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Havel, Vaclav

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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]

Bible

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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Steinem, Gloria

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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Woodrow Wilson

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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

Lao-Tzu

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To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Hooker, Richard

33.

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

Thatcher, Margaret

34.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Morgenthau, Hans J.

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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

Dass, Ram

41.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

42.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.