“I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”
“Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.”
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
“Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.”
“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.”
“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”
“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.”
“Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.”
“He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.”
“The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.”
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
“, with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.”
“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.”
“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.”
“Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”
“There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.”
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
“We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.”
“Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.”
“From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.”
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
“But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.”
“Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.”
“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.”
“Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.”
“I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.”
“We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.”