Power
Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.
- Byrnes, James F.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
- Colton, Charles C.
Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it comes.
- Hamilton, Andrew
The tempest uproots not the soft grasses that bow low on all sides; on the lofty trees it strikes hard. It is against the mighty that the mighty puts forth his prowess.
- Hitopadesa, The
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
- Ovid
He who has great power should use it lightly.
- Seneca
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.
- Taylor, Jeremy
He never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
