Power Quotes

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other.[Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen Machtwillen, und wo die Macht den Vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.]

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power; throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

You can’t trust anybody with power.

Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Wearing spectacles makes men conceited, because spectacles raise them to a degree of sensual perfection which is far above the power of their own nature.

The motive power is the cause of all life.[Il moto è causa d’ogni vita.]

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.