Quotes About Power

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I believe the gun has no power at all.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Balk the enemy's power; force him to reveal himself.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

There's a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.