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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

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.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.