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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Antichrist, section 2
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004), Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.: Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876), God and the State
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.: Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
A friend in power is a friend lost.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Anger without power is folly.: German Proverb
Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.: Edwin Teale

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