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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord John Dalberg Acton Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. - Henry Brooks Adams 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 Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. - Aeschylus Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world. - Archimedes Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled. - Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead--The Funeral Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. - Francis Bacon He hath no power that hath not power to use. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Visit) A grass blade believes that men build palaces for it to grow in. Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons. - Honore de Balzac Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. - Honore de Balzac Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Chances (act II, sc. 2, song) Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power. - Benazir Bhutto, in a CBS television interview Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. - Bible, Romans (ch. XIII, v. 1) Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity. - Edmund Burke The balance of power. - Edmund Burke, Speech Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2) Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. - Andrew Carnegie Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. - William Ellery Channing, The Present Age--An Address Iron hand in a velvet glove. - attributed to Charles V, used also by Napoleon I 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. - Charles Caleb Colton 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 pleasure imaginary. - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon (p. 255) Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.] - Pierre Corneille, Sertorius (IV, 2) So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be! - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter), Songs--The Sea in Calm (l. 13) The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Displaying page 1 of 4 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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