Fingers Quote by William Graham Sumner

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

— Derrick Bell

Power is the ability to make change.

— Geneva Overholser

The way to have power is to take it.

— Boss Tweed

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

— Joe Eszterhas

Power is of an encroaching nature.

— James Madison

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that…

— Hannah Arendt

Power is the ability to get things done

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

— Will Durant

Revolutions about taxation have shaped our history.

— Priti Patel

It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely

— Bertrand Russell

If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

— Swami Vivekananda