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Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
-Anon.
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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
-Arabic Proverb
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Voice of one, voice of none.
-Italian Proverb
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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
-Proverb
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
-Proverb
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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
-Proverb
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
-Proverb
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
-Edward Abbey
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
-Abigail Adams
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
-Henry Adams
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
-John Adams
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
-Aeschylus
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
-Withrop Aldrich
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
-Saul Alinsky
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Power tires only those who do not have it.
-Giulio Andreotti
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A word after a word after a word is power.
-Margaret Atwood
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
-Francis Bacon
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It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
-Francis Bacon
Essay 'Of Great Place'
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
-James Baldwin
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
-Honore de Balzac
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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
-Harry F. Banks
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Books about Power
