“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.”
“The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.”
“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.”
“All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.”
“Iron hand in a velvet glove.”
“Voice of one, voice of none.”
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
“Let them hate, so long as they fear.”
“The property of power is to protect.”
“The look of a king is itself a deed.”
“Wherever there is power there is age.”
“Our power is in our ability to decide.”
“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”
“Power is the by-product of understanding.”
“Power tires only those who do not have it.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
“The law always limits every power it gives.”
“The greatest power is often simple patience.”
“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”
“All power corrupts, but we need electricity.”
“He has the power who the majority believe in.”
“Personal power is the ability to take action.”
“The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.”
“A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.”
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
“We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”