It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

18.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

19.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

21.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Swift, Jonathan

22.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Proverb, Spanish

24.

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. I can t often means I won t. You can change I won t to I will with willpower.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.

Bannister, Roger

27.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

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

Billings, Josh

29.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

30.

You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

Kohe, J. Martin

31.

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

Steinem, Gloria

32.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

Lerner, Max

33.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

Tilney, Dr. Frederick

35.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

36.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Weil, Simone

37.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu

38.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Tilly

39.

Voice of one, voice of none.

Proverb, Italian

40.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Jefferson, Thomas

41.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Patton, George S.

42.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.

Herrich

44.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

Bronowski, Jacob

45.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Mann, Horace

46.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.