If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Character is power.

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions – you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Let’s be clear: when journalists use their power and privilege to cover up and divert attention from war crimes, they become war criminals themselves.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Abuse of power isn’t limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.

Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have – and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women’s ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men’s relations with women.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.