Ability Quote by Michel Foucault

“power is tolerable only on condition that it masks a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to an ability to hide its…

— Michel Foucault

Power is of an encroaching nature.

— James Madison

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

— Huey Newton

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

— Nancy Pelosi

If the large power voluntarily abstains from using its full power or feels the strategic situation to be such that it cannot do so,…

— Elliot Richardson

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

— Condoleezza Rice

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

— Ralph Ellison

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

— John Adams

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.

— Joseph Nye

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

— Shulamith Firestone