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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
bruce lee— Striking Thoughts (2000, p. 46)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
Sylvester Stallone
There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
muhammad ali jinnah— Speech at a rally at the University Stadium, Lahore (30 October 1947)
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.
Jacques Attali— As quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME—GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!
stan lee— Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) – The first Spider-Man story.
— In later stories and adaptations, including the 2002 movie, this has appeared as "With great power comes great responsibility."
— The saying pre-dates Amazing Fantasy. A UK Member of Parliament implied in 1817 that a variant of it was already a cliché (Thomas C. Hansard, ed (1817). Parliamentary Debates. p. 1227. Retrieved on October 10, 2013. "He should, however, beg leave to remind the conductors of the press of their duty to apply to themselves a maxim which they never neglected to urge on the consideration of government—'that the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.'" The editor is quoting William Lamb (pp. 1125–1229)). The sentiment is also found in Luke 12:48: "from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked" (NIV).
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
Martin Luther King Jr.— As quoted in The Civil Sphere (2006) by Jeffrey C. Alexander, p. 388
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it... one must have the courage to dare.
fyodor dostoevsky— Crime and Punishment (1866), part 5, chapter 4 (translated by David Magarshak).
Some Blockett-type employees actually believe that they have received a genuine promotion; others recognize the truth. But the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.
Laurence J. Peter— The Peter Principle (1969, pg. 38): This phenomenon is called by Peter "percussive sublimation", or "being kicked upstairs".
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
1st duke of wellington— As quoted in Words on Wellington (1889), by Sir William Fraser, p. 163.
All power corrupts, absolute power is even more fun.
— Simon Travaglia, The Operator From Hell Part 2 (1997)
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.
Matthew Arnold— Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, The Funeral
You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Obi-Wan Kenobi— Played by Alec Guinness in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.
— John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 February 1816)
Speak truth to power.
— American Friends Service Committee in Speak Truth to Power : A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence (1955)
Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.
— David John Moore Cornwell (John le Carré) (b. 1931), British author and one time spy, interviewed by Pip Ayers in Live magazine, The Mail on (10 July 2011)
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
carl jung— Carl Jung, in The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
We are defined by how we use our power.
gerry spence— Gerry Spence, The Rat Hole (2003-12-25) Essay on the use and abuse of power
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
gerry spence— Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 6 : The New King : Tyranny of the Corporate Core, p. 90
Patience and Gentleness is Power.
leigh hunt— Leigh Hunt, Sonnet, On a Lock of Milton's Hair
I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon, at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila, but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.
bertrand russell— Power: A New Social Analysis (1938). Ch. 2: Leaders and Followers.
There are powers in side of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
Marden Orison swett
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
john ray— English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
