I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. – Joseph Stalin
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits. – Hillary Clinton
I believe in delegating power. – Hillary Clinton
If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. – Joseph Stalin
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. – Bertrand Russell
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. – Bertrand Russell
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. – Huey Newton
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron – namely, that he is a blockhead. – Ambrose Bierce
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. – Orison Swett Marden
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. – Peter Drucker
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke
