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Quotes About Power

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.
~ E.L. James
The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
In my experience, influence is power.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.
~ Sapphire Belucci
Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.
~ J.Adam Snyder
In the midst of wanting to be powerful, I found a weakness.
~ baka_usagi, Forbidden Apple
Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.
~ Celia McMahon, Skye
I see a world on the edge of a blade. Without balance, it will fall.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
~ Mabel Hale
He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.
~ English proverb
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
~ Anonymous
It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.
~ Konrad Heiden
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
~ Noah Webster
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
~ Leon Trotsky
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
~ Walter Lippmann
His countenance was like lightning and his raiment white as snow.
~ Bible
If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?
~ George Daacon
Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.
~ Patrick Anderson
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
~ Henry Kissinger
Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
~ Peter Newman
Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough I can single-handed move the world.
~ Archimedes
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.
~ Walter Colton