More quotations tagged with “power”
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
—John Stuart Mill
The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
—James Madison
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
—James A. Garfield
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
—Henrik Ibsen
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
—Eric Hoffer