Power Quotes
Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.
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"Language is power."Samuel Beckett
"Power consists in one man's will imposing itself on another's."Leo Tolstoy
"Ambition in excess becomes destructive."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Power wielded without compassion becomes tyranny."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches."Ivan Turgenev
"Power without principle is tyranny; principle without power is futility."Mikhail Lermontov
"He do not know what power is at all if he do not know that it is power to say No."James Joyce
"The powerful always believe in their own righteousness."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Even the most insignificant person can influence the future."Ivan Turgenev
"Power without love is tyranny."William Butler Yeats
"Power lies in understanding yourself."Samuel Beckett
"Power without purpose is empty."Samuel Beckett
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."Oscar Wilde
"I can make a man famous in three columns of a newspaper."Oscar Wilde
"The only real power comes from within, from your own conviction and courage."Leo Tolstoy
"Power over others is fleeting; power over oneself is eternal."Leo Tolstoy
"The power to change begins with the power to imagine."James Joyce
"The true power is in knowing when not to use power."Anton Chekhov
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."George Bernard Shaw
"Desire is the great law of the universe; it is the force through which things happen."William Butler Yeats
"Every person carries within them the capacity for both creation and destruction."William Butler Yeats
"Power without wisdom is dangerous."Thomas Hardy
"Power is the ability to make a difference."Thomas Hardy
"The privilege of the great is to watch suffering."Oscar Wilde
"Power lies in the ability to transform experience into art."James Joyce
"Power lies not in dominion but in service."Leo Tolstoy
"A gaze is not in itself power unless backed by opinion."Thomas Hardy
"There is no greater power than the power of an idea."Thomas Hardy
"True power lies in restraint, not force."Anne Brontë
"Power corrupts when unchecked."Anne Brontë