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There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.

There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

There's no such thing as too much power!

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

The reputation of power IS power.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.

The way to have power is to take it.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death.