Power Quotes

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

25234 quotes

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"Power corrupts, but powerlessness corrupts absolutely."
Joseph Heller
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"Power without wisdom is tyranny."
Joseph Heller
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"Control is a powerful drug."
William S. Burroughs
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"The ultimate power is the power to affect consciousness."
William S. Burroughs
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"There's a violence to ambition that most people don't want to admit."
Norman Mailer
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"To be a man is to be a warrior; to be a woman is to be a priestess."
Norman Mailer
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"Power corrupts not because it is evil but because it reveals who we truly are."
Norman Mailer
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"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture"
Allen Ginsberg
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"What is the point of authority if not to diminish it"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Control is never as simple as we think it is, and attempts to exert control always produce unexpected results."
William S. Burroughs
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"Every word you speak is a spell cast upon the world."
William S. Burroughs
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"Power corrupts, but knowledge liberates."
William Carlos Williams
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"The power of now is the only power that matters."
Jack Kerouac
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"I would assert the lovely and formidable power of chaos."
Hart Crane
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"Power used wisely is true power."
Hart Crane
"The more power a person accumulates, the more desperately he needs to believe he's wise."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to."
J.D. Salinger
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"Power over others is weakness power over self is strength"
Allen Ginsberg
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"The power to change your life is always in your own hands."
Jack Kerouac
"There is a feeling of power in being feared."
Marianne Moore
"The mind is the master power that molds our lives."
Marianne Moore
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"Power corrupts most thoroughly when unexamined."
Hart Crane
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"Power is most truly exercised in restraint."
Hart Crane
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"Power corrupts the unprepared."
Hilda Doolittle
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"True power lies in surrender."
Hilda Doolittle
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, then finds himself in a position of power to use it."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The power of the mind is immeasurable."
William Carlos Williams
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"Power used without wisdom is tyranny."
William Carlos Williams
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"We are all architects of our own becoming, for better or worse."
Hart Crane
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"Power comes from knowing your own mind."
Allen Ginsberg