Force without forecast is to little avail. – Proverb
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. – Proverb
He who pays the piper calls the tune. – Proverb
Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey
A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams
The man whose authority is recent is always stern. – Aeschylus
The price of power is responsibility for the public good. – Withrop Aldrich
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. – Saul Alinsky
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Power tires only those who do not have it. – Giulio Andreotti
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. – Francis Bacon
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest. – Harry F. Banks
