Assuming Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world.

— Iris Sawyer

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which…

— Jasmine Guy

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them…

— F. Murray Abraham

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

— Vanna Bonta

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny…

— Anne Sweeney

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

Real power comes by empowering others.

— Denis Waitley

“The source of desire to be driven by power and spread of influence makes its owner dangerous to its privileges, as it not only…

— Sirio Berati

“Traditionally we associate power with the display of strength, winning, and having lots of money and prestige. I think we have power mixed up…

— Yasmin Davar

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion…

— Ludwig von Mises

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the…

— Peter Buffett

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty…

— Thomas Jefferson