“If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.”
“I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.”
“Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.”
“If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
“You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”
“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.”
“Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.”
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
“All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.”
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.”
“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”
“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
“Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
“Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.”