Quotes about Power, page 2

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power

With these real smart men in power, if we could just think of a new way to solve this problem without war, I think people would be so happy and delighted with America.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about power

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about power

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall, the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Quote by Francis Bacon about power

The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about power

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Quote by Kathy Acker about power

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about power

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about power

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about power

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Quote by John Adams about power

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Quote by John Adams about power

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Quote by John Adams about power

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Quote by John Adams about power

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Quote by John Adams about power

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about power