Great power Quote by Stephen Vizinczey

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

— Frank Herbert

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

— George R. R. Martin

In essence, everything is energy and cannot be destroyed.

— Ted Andrews

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

— George Orwell

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.

— Mike Murdock

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

— Ben Elton

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

— Jerry Rubin

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

— Daniel Fried

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

“There is no limit of degradation to which power cannot bring anyone even with the loftiest principles. We would hope that being unprepared for…

— Albert Meltzer

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

— Barbara Tuchman