Being Quote by John Lewis Gaddis

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

— Swami Vivekananda

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to…

— Patrick Henry

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more…

— Vaclav Havel

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

— J. William Fulbright

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

— Lyman Bryson

Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time from outside.…

— Gregory Bateson

If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

— Cheng Yi

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

— Alan Paton

I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else…

— Warren Farrell