Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken
Abigail Adams – Power
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
Albert Einstein – Power
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln – Power, Liberation
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot
Thomas Carlyle – Custom, Power
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies
Henry Brooks Adams – Power, Publicity
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Brooks Adams – Friendship, Power
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Brooks Adams – Power
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln – Adversity, Power
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli – Power, Motivation
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell – Power
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
Milan Kundera – Power
You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
Bill Clinton – Power, Government
People around the world have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
Bill Clinton – Power
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi on power
Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.
