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Quotes about power
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Diplomacy... the art of restraining power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There was three Kings into the east, / Three kings both great and high, / And they hae sworn a solemn oath / John Barleycorn should die. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Wiesenthal Simon)
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Let them hate, so long as they fear. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A friend in power is a friend lost. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The man whose authority is recent is always stern. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The price of power is responsibility for the public good. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power tires only those who do not have it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world. (Wiesenthal Simon)
A word after a word after a word is power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. (Wiesenthal Simon)
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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