Climax Quote by Isaac Deutscher

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is…

— Bertrand Russell

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected.

— Nikita Khrushchev

“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”

— Richard M. Weaver

No possible combination of circumstances can keep a man down, if he makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise..

— Wallace D. Wattles

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

— Samuel Johnson

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

— Lyman Bryson

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

— Hunter S. Thompson

America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once…

— Nancy Gibbs

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the…

— Orison Swett Marden

Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal…

— Roberto Assagioli

“Presidents rise and fall according to how they handle a crisis - an invasion, a depression, a massive oil spill - but there's no…

— Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy