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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

» Aeschylus (525-456) Greek dramatist

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

» Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-Statless-Swiss-Austrian -American scientist

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

» Arabian proverb (-)

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

» Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-born American writer

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

» Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British logician and philosopher [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950]

The property of power is to protect.

» Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

The law always limits every power it gives.

» David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, economist and historian

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

» Epictetus (55-125) Greek stoic philosopher

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

» Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Jewish-German psychoanalyst and social philosopher

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

» Abigail Adams (1744-1818) First Lady of the United States

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

» Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Lawyer, politician 16thPresident of the United States[Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth]

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

» Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-?) Russian novelist, dramatist and historian

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

» Barack Obama (1961-?) American Politician

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

» Christine Lagarde (1956-?) French Economist

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to

» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author

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