“You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.”
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.
“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
“You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”
“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.”
“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”
“Words derive their power from the original word.”
“This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.”
“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.”
“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.”
“Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.”
“Power ought to serve as a check to power.”
“Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!”