A fool is very dangerous when in power.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

— James Anthony Froude

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like…

— Hannah Arendt

“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man”

— David Crockett

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through…

— Robert Jay Lifton

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of…

— Felix Frankfurter

Some use it as a weapon, others as a shield. Without it, you would most likely die. With it, you are weak. It is…

— Babloo

“Words...have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being.”

— Kelly Creagh

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

— Isabel Allende

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

— Edward Abbey

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute…

— Donald Trump

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once…

— Vera Nazarian

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man.

— David Crockett

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help…

— Henrik Ibsen