Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac
Truth is powerful and it prevails. – Sojourner Truth
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be. – Alice Walker
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. – Charles de Gaulle
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. – Aung San Suu Kyi
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. – Andrew Carnegie
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan
Whoever is new to power is always harsh. – Aeschylus
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. – Barney Frank
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. – Phillips Brooks
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. – Friedrich Schiller
Power is dangerous unless you have humility. – Richard J. Daley
I cured with the power that came through me. – Black Elk
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. – Baruch Spinoza
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. – Georg Buchner
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence. – Don DeLillo
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
