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 pleasures imaginary.
The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive but it is sufficient. Too often Christianity has not been tried and found wanting it has been found demanding and not tried.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
… power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or to put it another way the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish.
The sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.
In the past those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out starting with himself.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often but by striking true.
Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power.
The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
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 pleasures imaginary.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Washing ones hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful not to be neutral.
Let not thy Will roar when thy Power can but whisper.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Of newspaper barons: Power without responsibility – the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power great or small we ought to use in all circumstances.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.
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.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
Of Women: I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive but it is sufficient. Too often Christianity has not been tried and found wanting it has been found demanding and not tried.
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
… power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or to put it another way the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
PLENIPOTENTIARY adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
I want what I want when I want it.
All I want is a warm bed a kind word and unlimited power.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
If you tell the truth you have infinite power supporting you; but if not you have infinite power against you.
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs the rockets and the warships are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent but command.
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
We cannot live by power and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
The essence of Government is power; and power lodged as it must be in human hands will ever be liable to abuse.
Power never takes a step back only in the face of more power.
The sole end for which mankind are warranted individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection.
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know my lords: that where laws end tyranny begins.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret especially under the cloak of national security is doubly dangerous.