Power Quotes

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

25234 quotes

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"The weight of words can crush mountains or move them—therein lies their power."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Words are weapons; handle them as you would a blade."
Anna Akhmatova
A
"A society has already perished spiritually and is merely awaiting its physical dissolution."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A
"There is no such thing as the West; there is only power."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
M
"Power without wisdom is destruction."
Mikhail Lermontov
M
"Power corrupts, but virtue elevates."
Mikhail Lermontov
V
"Power corrupts, but powerlessness corrupts more."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Power corrupts the weak of heart."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Words can build empires or destroy them entirely."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Power over others is nothing compared to power over oneself."
Boris Pasternak
M
"The world belongs to those who dare to change it."
Maxim Gorky
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"The power of thought is the power of the mind."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The power of language lies in its ability to conceal thought."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"The pen is mightier than the throne."
Aleksandr Pushkin
A
"Every word carries weight; speak with intention."
Aleksandr Pushkin
A
"It is not intellectuals who rule the world. It is those with power and their henchmen."
Anton Chekhov
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"What an immense power over life is the power of producing some small change in things."
Anton Chekhov
M
"Ambition without conscience is the recipe for both power and damnation."
Mikhail Lermontov
M
"Power corrupts slowly at first, then all at once."
Mikhail Lermontov
N
"Ambition is the poison that consumes the ambitious."
Nikolai Gogol
N
"Power corrupts, but powerlessness degrades."
Nikolai Gogol
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"What makes a man a man is the power to decide"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
M
"Power without responsibility is tyranny; responsibility without power is helplessness."
Maxim Gorky
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"Power gained through domination is temporary; power earned through service is eternal."
Maxim Gorky
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"True power lies in understanding others, not dominating them."
Ivan Turgenev
I
"Power corrupts when it forgets its purpose is service."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Power without wisdom is tyranny."
Aleksandr Pushkin
M
"Power corrupts the weak and reveals the strong."
Mikhail Lermontov
N
"Power corrupts not through force but through the abandonment of conscience."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Power without love is tyranny; love without power is sentimentality."
Nikolai Gogol