“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
Power reveals character. These quotes explore authority, influence, control, and the recurring lesson of history that power is dangerous precisely because it feels so good to the person who has it.
“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
“The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”
“I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists or surrender power. It's your choice.”
“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.”
“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.”
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”
“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”