Abuse of power Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lyman Bryson

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

— Morgan Llywelyn

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

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

— John Fire Lame Deer

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

— Thomas Hobbes

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been…

— Herman Melville

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

— Swami Vivekananda

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its…

— C. S. Lewis

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do best--that to…

— J. G. Holland

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in…

— Alexander Graham Bell

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

— George R. R. Martin