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You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!