“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”
“He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.”
“The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.”
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
“, with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.”
“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”
“Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”
“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
“We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.”
“Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.”
“From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.”
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
“But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.”
“Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.”
“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.”
“Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.”
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
“We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
“There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”