Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 28

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlanticfrom Portsmouth to NewYork. As it neared its destination at night, alookout on the wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or movingastern?’ the captain called out.

Washing one''s hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Power doesn''t corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man''s character, give him power.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exerciseof power over others.

The power to do good is also thepower to do harm.

You only have power over people so long as you don''t takeeverything away from them. But when you''ve robbed a man of everything he''s nolonger in your power he''s free again.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The property of power is to protect.

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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to breakthrough the phony authority to begin to fight thereal questions of power.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

You can have power over people as long as you don''t takeeverything away from them. But when you''ve robbed a man of everything, he''sno longer in your power.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren''t.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is noinnocence this side of the womb.