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Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
bruce leeWhat 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 AttaliWITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME—GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!
stan leeI 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.Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it... one must have the courage to dare.
fyodor dostoevskySome 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. PeterYou 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 wellingtonAll power corrupts, absolute power is even more fun.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyI thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.
rabindranath tagoreThere is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
muhammad ali jinnahOdin, 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 ArnoldBlack power.
stokely carmichaelPower tends to corrupt , and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority : still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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.
If you want to discover just what there is in a man — give him power.
The problem with power is that people pay attention to it, and it's very easy to get beside yourself and use it in the wrong way.
Power corrupts, PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
john drydenYou must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black