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
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"I believe in the power of human will."
Émile Zola
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"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
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"The power of words lies in their ability to transform reality."
Émile Zola
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"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
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"Power without conscience corrupts absolutely."
Émile Zola