Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

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"Man can will what is possible; that which is impossible no one can will."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Great minds are always feared by lesser minds."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The power to change lies within each individual heart."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Power without principle is tyranny."
Christian Wolff
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"The measure of power is not in force, but in influence."
Christian Wolff
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"There is no greater delight than to be the architect of one's own destiny."
Johann Goethe
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"We know only two kinds of forces: the power of love and the force of fear."
Johann Goethe
"The power of ideas exceeds the power of force."
Moses Mendelssohn
"Power is meaningless without compassion."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"Power wielded without wisdom inevitably leads to the oppression of the vulnerable."
Catharine Macaulay
"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"The human will bends itself to the powers that be."
Friedrich Schiller
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"A prince who governs by law is more powerful than one who rules by force alone."
Jean Bodin
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"The accumulation of power without wisdom leads inevitably to the corruption of the soul."
Jean Bodin
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"The pursuit of absolute power is the pursuit of absolute corruption and absolute misery."
Jean Bodin
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"Those who seek power for its own sake are unfit to hold it, for they lack the wisdom to use it well."
Jean Bodin
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"Those who monopolize knowledge and truth create the conditions for their own eventual overthrow."
Jean Bodin
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"Power without wisdom inevitably leads to the destruction of power itself."
Christian Wolff
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"Power that understands its own limits exercises true dominion."
Christian Wolff
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"The corruption of power is not inevitable; it is the consequence of insufficient virtue in those who hold it."
Catharine Macaulay
"Power without conscience is the greatest danger to humanity."
Moses Mendelssohn
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"The world bows to those who understand its laws."
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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"Power is not given, it is earned."
Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
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"The power of thought is the greatest power of all."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Power without wisdom is tyranny."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Power corrupts when separated from morality."
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"The cause of all man's calamity is his ignorance of his own power."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"Our greatest weapon is not the sword but the word."
Paul-Henri Thiry Holbach
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"A king who rules by fear alone shall die by the same fear he has sown."
Jean Bodin
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"Ambition without restraint is the seed of destruction planted in one's own breast."
Jean Bodin