Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"An enemy who is liberal and noble is more dangerous than a hundred enemies who are crude and mean."Henrik Ibsen
"True power is the ability to influence without dominating."Henrik Ibsen
"Power without conscience is tyranny."Boris Pasternak
"Power is the ability to lift others, not to crush them."Boris Pasternak
"The power to change the world begins within the human spirit."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Words are a form of action, capable of influencing the condition in which people live."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Power without morality is the greatest evil."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Words are the most powerful weapons."Vladimir Nabokov
"The most destructive element in the human hand is the word."August Strindberg
"The power of a single word can change the course of a life."Selma Lagerlöf
"Power without wisdom becomes tyranny."Selma Lagerlöf
"True power lies in the ability to serve others with grace."Selma Lagerlöf
"The pen is mightier than the sword because it shapes the thoughts that guide the hand that wields the sword."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The power of words lies in their ability to create worlds."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"It is precisely the men of ability who are most jealous of any disturbance of the peace."Henrik Ibsen
"Power without conscience is the greatest evil that humans can perpetrate."Boris Pasternak
"In the face of power that corrupts absolutely, only moral clarity can prevail."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Our greatest power lies in what we choose to remember."Anna Akhmatova
"The measure of a person is what they do with power."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Power without compassion breeds tyranny."Maxim Gorky
"Power corrupts, but love elevates."Maxim Gorky
"Power is not something one achieves; it is something one refuses to relinquish."Vladimir Nabokov
"The greatest power we possess is the power to choose our own thoughts."August Strindberg
"Power corrupts not because it is evil, but because it reveals what we truly are."August Strindberg
"What makes a man truly powerful is his ability to influence others without coercion."Henrik Ibsen
"Power without humility corrupts; humility without power inspires."Henrik Ibsen
"Power without love is tyranny; love without power is sentimentality."Boris Pasternak
"Power without humility is the quickest path to irrelevance."Boris Pasternak
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."Nikolai Gogol
"I measure the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."Maxim Gorky