Power Quotes

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

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"The only way to control people is to lie to them."
William Butler Yeats
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"I am the creation of my own will."
Emily Brontë
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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I discovered the art of getting men to fight one another instead of fighting me."
James Joyce
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"Power without compassion is tyranny."
Anne Brontë
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"Our true power lies not in dominating others, but in mastering ourselves."
Anne Brontë
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"The most dangerous belief is that we are in control of our circumstances."
Thomas Hardy
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"The most powerful person in the room is often the one who speaks least."
Thomas Hardy
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"What noble deeds might we perform if we were only fully persuaded of our own power?"
George Eliot
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"Power is not the dominion over others, but mastery of oneself."
Emily Brontë
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"Nothing is ever done in this world until the men and women are ready to kill one another if it is not done."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
Oscar Wilde
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"Power is a great thing, but it is not everything."
Emily Brontë
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"Power corrupts, but powerlessness brutalizes."
Thomas Hardy
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"Power seeks to perpetuate itself through whatever means available."
Thomas Hardy
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"The power of human sympathy is the greatest force in the world."
George Eliot
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"Power without compassion is tyranny."
Anne Brontë
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"Power exercised with restraint is true power."
Anne Brontë
"I believe in the power of human will."
Émile Zola
"The power of the mind is infinite."
Émile Zola
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current power structures."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Power without principle is tyranny."
Emily Brontë
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"The pursuit of power without wisdom is the path to destruction."
George Eliot
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"The energy of his character seemed to flow out from him like an electric stream"
Charles Dickens
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"Power without compassion is tyranny"
Charles Dickens
"The power of words lies in their ability to transform reality."
Émile Zola
"Power corrupts when it is not tempered by compassion."
Émile Zola
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"A man might build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it."
Alexandre Dumas
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"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, because it was done neatly."
Honoré de Balzac
"Power without conscience corrupts absolutely."
Émile Zola