Quotes About Power

as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.

Tear out my eyes, oh King, and fix them on the gate of Wu, so that I may see the triumphant entry of Yueh.

Plus vous vous laissez aller à parler, plus vous avez l'air banal et peu maître de vous-même. Même anodines, vos paroles sembleront originales si elles restent vagues et énigmatiques. Les personnages puissants impressionnent et intimident parce qu'ils sont peu loquaces. Plus vous en dites et plus vous risquez de dire des bêtises.

Asimismo, el modo en que la gente maneja el poder y la responsabilidad te dirá mucho sobre ella. Como dijo Lincoln: "Si quieres probar el carácter de un hombre, dale poder".

Great courtiers throughout history have mastered the science of manipulating people.

You are one of a kind. Your combination of skills and experience is not replicable. That represents true freedom and the ultimate power we humans can possess.

Better to have others depend on you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your company.

People trying to make a show of their authority are easily deceived by the surrender tactic. Your outward sign of submission makes them feel important; satisfied that you respect them, they become easier targets for a later counterattack

When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. Ethiophan proverb

Make people depend on you. More is to be gained from such dependence than courtesy. He who has slaked his thirst, immediately turns his back on the well, no longer needing it. When dependence disappears, so does civility and decency, and then respect.

What gets us into trouble in the realm of power is often our own overreaction to the moves of our enemies and rivals.

Intense desire has a distracting power on a woman, just as the Siren's physical presence does on a man.

The ability to measure people and to know who you're dealing with is the most important skill of all in gathering and conserving power. Without it you are blind:

this often neutralizes their behavior—they expected, even wanted you to react with force and so they are caught off-guard and confounded by your lack of resistance.

Even while you know you are practicing a kind of deception on yourself, act like a king. You are likely to be treated as one.

In the battle of the intelligent against the brutal and the aggressive, the surrender tactic is the supreme weapon.

Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

KEYS TO POWER Everyone has insecurities. When you show yourself in the world and display your talents, you naturally stir up all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity. This is to be expected. You cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others. With those above you, however, you must take a different approach: When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

El hecho de que una persona ejerza tan profundo efecto en ti transforma todas tus maniobras posteriores. Tu intenso deseo contagiará a tu objetivo, y le brindará la peligrosa sensación de tener poder sobre ti.

Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power.

Aprende a ejercer el hechizo del en- cantador apuntando a las debilidades primarias de la gente: vanidad y amor propio.

Your idea of power is wrong. You have mistaken aggressive action for effective action.