| Author |
Quotes |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power |
| Arundhati Roy | Refuse to wave the flag Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse to the dock. |
| Ben Jonson | O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with the gods? |
| Benazir Bhutto | Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. |
| Bible | Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind. |
| Hans J Morgenthau | Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. |
| James Madison | The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. |
| Jean Rostand | 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. |
| Max Lerner | We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. |
| Pierre Corneille | Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. |
| Senator Edward M Kennedy | This administration has broken faith with the people of America. They have squandered the immense good will extended by other nations. |
| Sir William Jones | My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed. |
| Sylovester Stallone | God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the tooth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. |
| Tiberius Caesar | Power has no limits. |
| Tiberius Caesar | To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand. |
| William Ellery Channing | Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. |
| William Ellery Channing | Iron hand in a velvet glove. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. |
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