Benevolence Quote by Michael J. Sullivan

Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels…

— Alexander Lowen

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

— John Adams

“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things are not…

— Anonymous

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt,…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire…

— Aldous Huxley

Power, greed, and perhaps more than anything, ego, are powerful emotions and motivators.

— Trish Regan

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

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

— John Adams

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

— Seamus Heaney

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the…

— Vernon Howard