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| Aktiemajoritet: Dividende et impera! | Gerhard Uhlenbruck (1929-) |
| All makt ska samlas i denna sal. | Johan Sverdrup (1816-1892) |
| All makts hemlighet består av att man vet att andra är ännu fegare än man själv. | Ludwig Börne (1786-1837) |
| All vår makt räcker inte för att förändra människor som har bestämt sig för att tillfredsställa ett gammalt hat eller en ny ambition. | Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Alla människor tror att Gud står på deras sida. De som har pengar och makt vet att han gör det. | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| De små människornas makt ligger i deras antal. | Alberto Moravia (1907-1990) |
| De som har blivit berusade av makt och dragit fördel av den, om också bara för ett år, kommer aldrig att avstå frivilligt ifrån den. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| De största och starkaste makter jag vet är skräck, kärlek och ensamhet. | Anna-Greta Wide (1920-1965) |
| Den ena kniven håller den andra i slidan. Italienskt ordspråk | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Den som drömmer om makt ska inte snarka ljudligt. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Den som har blivit berusad av makt och har haft födel av den, om så bara för ett år, kommer aldrig ge upp den frivilligt. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Den som sväller i medgång krymper i motgång. En vän som kommit till makten är oftast en förlorad vän. | Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) |
| Den som vill lära sig att befalla måste först ha lärt sig att lyda. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Den som älskar frihet älskar andra, den som älskar makt älskar bara sig själv. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Den svåraste frestelsen på jorden är inte pengar eller kärlek. Den svåraste frestelsen på jorden är makt. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Den verklige makthavaren bär sin makt under kavajslaget, inte i knapphålet. | Roger Peyrefitte (1907-) |
| Det finns ingen större makt än skrattets. | Hugh Greene |
| Det finns inte mycket vetande som skapar makt, men det finns mycket vetande som bara förvärvas med makt. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Det finns också maktens uppkomlingar. De uppför sig på motsvarande sätt. | Amintore Fanfani (1908-) |
| Det organiserade vanvettet är den största makten i världen. | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| Det värsta är att de som har makt men inte kunskap inte vill veta av det som de inte har makt över. | Villy Sørensen |
| Det är de styrande som måste bevakas, inte de styrda. | Friedrich Diirrenmatt |
| Disciplin: den känsla av obehag en underordnad känner i närvaron av en överordnad. | Albert Engström (1869-1940) |
| Du kan inte härska över ett helt land om du inte först kan härska över ditt samvete. | Annemarie Renger |
| Där makten finns måste man leta efter kvinnorna som efter nålen i höstacken. | Annemarie Renger |
| Där makten har rätt, har rätten ingen makt. | Ordspråk från Norge |
| En krona är en huvudbonad som gör huvudet överflödigt. | Gabriel Laub |
| En kult är en religion utan politisk makt. | Sander |
| En pamp blir alltid upprörd när han kallas pamp. Annars skulle han inte vara det. Det är alltså ett bra kriterium på en pamp. | Sander |
| En regering som rånar Peter för att betala Pål kan alltid förlita sig på Påls stöd. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Envar har så många rättigheter som han har makt till. | Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) |
| För att vara i stånd till att tillägna sig och behålla makten, måste man älska den. | Lev (Leo) Nikolajevitsj Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Förr höll sig makthavarna med hovnarrar. Det behöver våra dagars makthavare inte längre. | Wolfgang Eschker |
| Första klassens människor anställer första klassens människor. Andra klassens människor anställer tredje klassens människor. | Jacques Maritain (1882-) |
| I maktens förrum råder alltid stor trängsel. | Jacques Maritain (1882-) |
| I maktens väsen ligger också missbruket av den. | Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
| Ingen vet vad som döljer sig inom honom förrän han har smakat makten. | Otto Flake |
| Ingenting skymmer sanningen så helt som auktoriteten. | Leon Battista Alberti |
| Ja, det är sant att kunskap är makt - men då måste man behålla den för sig själv. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Jag har inte arbetat för främmande makt. Det finns ingen makt i världen som kan få mig att arbeta. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Ju större makt, desto farligare är missbruk av den. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Kanon: Ett instrument för korrigering av statsgränser. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Kanoner är det absoluta uttrycket för penningens innersta väsen. | Stephen Spender |
| Kunskap är makt, framför allt kunskap om andra människor. | Ethel Watts Mumford |
| Kunskap är makt, men okunskap betyder dock inte alls maktlöshet. | Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) |
| Kunskap är makt. | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| Kunskap är makt. Okunskap betyder dock inte alls maktlöshet. | Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) |
| Kvinnor är den enda grupp i historien som idealiserats till maktlöshet. | L. J. Guez de Balzac (1594-1655) |
| Kärleken är en makt, inte en vilja. Den faller lika lätt på en lort som på en lilja. | L. J. Guez de Balzac (1594-1655) |
| Lite vett och mycket makt är det som nästan alltid har styrt världen. | L. J. Guez de Balzac (1594-1655) |
| Lyssna noga på det makten tiger om | Arnljot Eggen (1923-) |
| Låt inte din vilja ryta när din styrka bara behöver viska. | Engelskt ordspråk |
| Makt existerar inte, endast maktmissbruk. | Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) |
| Makt går före rätt. | Latinskt ordspråk |
| Makt handlar inte om ståndaktighet utan om girighet. | Jakob Burckhardt |
| Makt korrumperar när de svaga sluter sig samman för att störta de starka, men inte förr. | Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
| Makt verkar korrumperande, och absolut makt korrumperar absolut. | Lord Acton (1834-1902) |
| Makt är att ha rätt att döda, men ändå låta bli. | Oskar Shindler |
| Makt är den enda lust man inte tröttnar på. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Makt är den starkaste kärleksstimulansen. Maktmedvetenhet är nästan en sexuell känsla. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| Makt är en måltid som ger växande aptit. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Makt är ett emotionellt laddat ord. När vi besitter den kallar vi den inflytande. När någon annan har den nöjer vi oss med det fula ordet makt. | Arthur F. Corey |
| Makt är ett emotionellt laddat ord. När vi själva besitter den kallar vi den inflytande. När någon annan har den nöjer vi oss med det fula ordet makt. | Arthur F. Corey |
| Makt är inte ett medel makt är ett mål | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Makt är inte ett medel, makt är ett mål. (ur boken 1984) | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| Makt är något för människor med kalla huvuden och kalla händer. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Makten blir aldrig mätt. | Ordspråk från Danmark |
| Makten finns där. Brukas den inte, missbrukas den. | Per Roald (1912-) |
| Makten fördummar. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Makten går oftare från hand till hand än från huvud till huvud. | Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1906-1966) |
| Makten klarar sig inte utan prestige, och prestigen inte utan avstånd. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Makten sin bör en man med vett hovsamt och hövligt bruka. | Håvamål |
| Makten är en stege med genomsågade stegpinnar. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Makten är söt, men det finns gift i sockret. | Ordspråk från Sverige |
| Makten över andra är inget - makten över sig själv är allt | Gabriel Scott (1874-1958) |
| Makthavarna gör något gott så fort de låter bli att göra något dåligt. | Henri Troyat |
| Maktpolitik är den diplomatiska benämningen på djungelns lag. | Ely Culbertson |
| Man löper alltid risken att bli cynisk när man kommer till makten, men jag har alltid lyckats få bukt med cynismen. | Willy Brandt (1913-1992) |
| Man måste låta folk få tro att de har inflytande. Huvudsaken är att man inte låter dem få det. | Ludwig Thoma |
| Man skiljer mellan maktpolitik och annan politik. Som om det fanns någon annan. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Med maktbalans menas att alla känner lika stor vanmakt. | Otto Ludwig (1923-) |
| Mig har givits all makt i himelen och på jorden. | Jesus Christ |
| Minoriteten är de som alltid har fel - i början. | Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962) |
| Minoriteterna är firmamentets stjärnor. Majoriteten är det mörker de befinner sig i. | Martin Henry Fischer (1879-1962) |
| Minoriteterna är nästa generations majoritet. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Många bedöms som stora därför att man även mäter piedestalen. | Seneca |
| Nomenklaturans subjektivitet bestämmer vad som är objektivitet. | Paul E. Tiek |
| När jag var ung trodde jag att välstånd och makt skulle bringa mig lycka. Jag fick rätt. | Gary Wilson (1934-) |
| När man inte har auktoritet behöver man makt. | Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) |
| När man inte har makt saknar man den. När man har den rinner den bort mellan fingrarna. Ju närmare man är den, desto mer tycks den försvinna. Politisk makt är det farligaste lyckopillret. Den ska hanteras med stor försiktighet, även för ens egen själsfrids skull. | Niels Helveg Petersen |
| Nästan alla kan tåla motgång, men vill du pröva en mans karaktär, så ge honom makt. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Om du alltid är oense med din överordnade är det på tiden att någon av er försvinner. Antagligen du. | S. R. Rajan |
| Om jag har sett längre än andra har det varit genom att stå på stora mäns axlar. | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) |
| Om man vill veta vad Vår Herre anser om makt behöver man bara titta på de människor han har gett den till. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Rättvisa och makt bör följas åt; och det bör ordnas så, att det rätta blir starkt och det starka rätt. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| Skönhet är en makt med vilken en kvinna förtrollar en älskare och förskräcker en äkta man. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Stor makt betyder varken stor handlingsfrihet eller beslutsfrihet. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Stora män har ofta större fel än som ryms i små män. | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| Stora mäns framgångar borde alltid mätas med de medel de använt för att nå dem. | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| Storheten behöver mystik. Det välbekanta lockar sällan till beundran. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Styrkans svaghet är att den bara tror på styrkan. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Till makten utvecklar man så småningom ett erotiskt förhållande, som Henry Kissinger har påpekat. Till följd av detta är avkall på makt också som att ta farväl av någon man älskar. | Adolfo Suarez |
| Utan missbruk är makten charmlös. | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Vad en människa ogillar hos sina överordnade bör icke komma till synes i hennes behandling av sina underordnade. | Tsang Sin |
| Vanans makt gör också makten till en vana. | Hans-Horst Skupy |
| Vi har fortfarande hedniska värderingar. Endast den som kämpar, erövrar och förtrycker betraktas som en man. Den som inte brukar våld anses omanlig. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| Vi har glömt världshistorien om vi inte räknar med att den som sitter vid makten förr eller senare kommer att utnyttja den till fullo. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| Vi måste ju tänka på maktbalansen. Det gäller att bita sej själv i svansen. Jag måste vara minst lika stark som han. Vi måste vara starkare än varann. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| Du kan komme langt længere med et venligt ord og et gevær, end du kan med et venligt ord alene. | Al Capone (1899-1947) |
| Du har magt over mennesker, så længe du ikke tager alt fra dem. Når du har taget alt fra en mand, er han ikke længere i din magt - han er fri igen. | Alexander Solsjenitsin |
| Der findes kun èn måde at bekæmpe magten på. Overlev den! | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Tavshed er magtens ultimative våben. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Det er den svage, som tilskynder til kompromis - aldrig den stærke. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Magt er det bedste af alle afrodisiaka | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| Ord efter ord efter ord er magt. | Margaret Atwood (1939-) |
| Der er kun to magter i verden, sværdet og ånden. I det lange løb vil sværdet altid blive slået af ånden. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Jeg har forsøgt at betvinge Europa med våben. Den, der kommer efter mig, må bruge overbevisningens magt, for ånden vil altid sejre over sværdet! | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Ret uden magt er virkningsløs. | Tøger Seidenfaden |
| Man kan bygge en trone med bajonetter, men man kan ikke sidde på den. | William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) |
| Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters. | Addison Gayle, Jr. |
| You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. | Aleksander Solzhenitsyn |
| Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. | Anne O'Hare McCormick |
| The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. | Anthony Brandt |
| Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth 1, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy | Celia Brayfield |
| As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. | Corazon Aquino (1933-) |
| It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. | David Brinkley (1920-2003) |
| Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| Power is the ability not to have to please. | Elizabeth Janeway (1913-) |
| If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world | Emmet Fox (1886-1951) |
| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. | Eric Sevareid (1912-1992) |
| Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine | Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| We often hear of important gatherings of the "great and the good." Sadly the great have not often been good. But the good have learned that it is better to be good than to be great. Rare is the person in this life who is both great and good. | Grant Fairley |
| It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. | Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) |
| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power. | Jesse Ventura (1952-) |
| Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. | Katharine Graham (1917-) |
| The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble | Lajos Kossuth |
| Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court. | Latvian Proverb |
| Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. | Lincoln Steffens |
| Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment. | Lord Chandos |
| The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are | Ludwig Borne |
| Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power. | Martin Buber (1878-1965) |
| 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. | Michael Faraday (1791-1867) |
| Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. | Michel Foucault (1926-1984) |
| Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. | Ralph Ellison (1914-) |
| Power is dangerous unless you have humility. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| I like power and I like to use it. | Sam Rayburn (1882-1961) |
| Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. | Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) |
| Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have | Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) |
| During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world | Scott Nearing (1883-1983) |
| The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. | St. Basil |
| Power, after love, is the first source of happiness | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Power is every stealing from the many to the few. | Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) |
| Every crisis offers you extra desired power | William Moulton Marston |
| Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins | William Pitt the younger (1759-1806) |
| Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous | William Proxmire (1915-) |
| Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. | Abigail Adams (1744-1818) |
| The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. | Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) |
| The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. | Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) |
| Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. | George Bush (1924-1924) |
| Power is the by-product of understanding. | Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) |
| The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. | Nadine Gordimer (1923-) |
| Power gravitates to the man who knows how. | Orison Sweet Marden |
| Power without abuse loses its charm | Paul Valéry (1871-1945) |
| Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. | Ralph Waldo Trine |
| If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed. | Sparky Anderson (1934-) |
| To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. | Tryon Edwards |
| The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any | Alice Walker (1944-) |
| Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. | Aristoteles (384 f.Kr.-322 f.Kr.) |
| Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Power is the capacity to distort information | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| I like power and I like to use it. | Sam Rayburn (1882-1961) |
| Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt | Anne O'Hare McCormick |
| Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. | Anne O'Hare McCormick |
| What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful | Blaine Lee |
| Use power to curb power | Chinese Proverbs |
| Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't | Oskar Shindler |
| The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters. | Addison Gayle, Jr. |
| The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the ind | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. | Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) |
| In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will. | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. | Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) |
| All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| The property of power is to protect. | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The power of philosophy floats through my head, Light like a feather, Heavy as Led | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Jah will never give the power to a baldhead! | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Power is the ability to do good things for others. | Brooke Astor (1902-) |
| I suppose I am the most powerful man in the world, but great power doesn't mean much except great limitations | Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) |
| Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Only he deserves power who every day justifies it | Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961) |
| There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation. | Dennis Prager (1948-) |
| The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Victory; a matter of staying power. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. | Elie Wiesel (1928-) |
| If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world | Emmet Fox (1886-1951) |
| Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine | Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) |
| We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. | George Orwell (1903-1950) |
| No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am; but I have never yet been able to discover the propriety of placing it absolutely out of the power of men to render essential services | George Washington (1732-1799) |
| A picture must possess a real power to generate light [and] for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. | Henry Kissinger (1923-) |
| The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. | James Arthur Ray (1957-) |
| I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun | Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
| Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) |
| We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902) |
| In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still | Lao Tzu |
| In saying that without the power of the state, evil men would rule over the good. It is taken for granted that the good are precisely those who at the present time have power, and the bad the same who are no subjugated. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that? | Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) |
| Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power. | Mary Worley Montagu |
| Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. | Michael Pollan |
| And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I: now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you find absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. | Octave Mirbeau (1850-) |
| Those who seek power are not worthy of that power. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| When you strike at a king, you must kill him | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Do the thing and you will be given the power | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A good intention clothes itself with power | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Power is dangerous unless you have humility. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| Excessive power sees power beyond its power | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| He is most powerful who has power over himself | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. | St. Basil |
| The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine. | Starhawk |
| Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose | Stephen R. Covey |
| Power is not alluring to pure minds | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power | Sir Thomas More (1477-1535) |
| Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form. | Thomas Troward |
| No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives. | Tony Snow |
| Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| What power has love but forgiveness? | William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) |
| Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Alle veier fører til Beijing. | Kinesisk Ordtak |
| Alle veier fører til Rom. | Europeisk Ordtak |
| Alt avhenger av tanken. Tanken er alle tings begynnelse. Med tanken kan man herske. | Leo Tolstoj (1828-1910) |
| Den som kan slikke, den kan bite. | Carl Joachim Hambro (1885-1964) |
| Det er makta som rår sa kjærringa, og kasta katta på dør. | Carl Joachim Hambro (1885-1964) |
| Det er overhodet ikke noen mulighet for å hevde nøytralitet uten et minimum av makt for å verne den. | Carl Joachim Hambro (1885-1964) |
| Det finnes ingen større makt enn latterens. | Hugh Greene |
| Det gies andre makter i livet enn styrke | Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson |
| En venn som får makt er en tapt venn. | Samuel Adams (1722-1803) |
| Hva mennesker skal med makt er svært at forstå Men svaret er lett: Makt, det er noget man samler på når man ikke har rett. | Kumbel |
| Ingen er stuttare enn at en må bøye seg, og ingen er lengere enn at en må tøye seg. | Ordtak |
| Makt . betyr bare én ting: adgang til å påføre andre smerte. | Jens Bjørneboe |
| Makt betyr at man ikke behøver å heve stemmen. | George Will (1941-) |
| Makt betyr muligheten til å påføre andre mennesker smerte. | Jens Bjørneboe |
| Makt er ikke noe man får, det er noe man tar. | Hans Carossa (1878-1956) |
| Makten er ond, men det er avmakten også. | Hans Carossa (1878-1956) |
| Makti si må ein mann med vit høvsamt og høveleg bruke. | Håvamål |
| Media er 4. hjul på statsmaktsvogna. | Robert Greiner |
| Når de undertrykte kommer til makten, blir de selv undertrykkere - og er ikke bedre enn sine fiender. | Jens Bjørneboe |
| Når små menn kaster lange skygger, bærer det mot solefall. | Karsten Isachsen |
| Noen mennesker søker politisk makt eller formell status. Da kan de regjere, bestemme, belønne og straffe. Men du styrer ikke følelser med formell makt. | Karsten Isachsen |
| Spre forvirring - usikkerhet gir makt | Indisk Ordtak |
| Ved mildhet viser den sterke sin makt. | Indisk Ordtak |