All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
African proverbs
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Peter Drucker
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
Benjamin Franklin
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
Ethiopian proverbs
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
Leo Tolstoy
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Ayn Rand
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald Reagan
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Martin Luther
