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Power

«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.»
«Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Power | Keywords: corrupt, corrupts, loss, The Fear
«Power in a corporation becomes residual and dwells in the background. It is the ability to exercise nice matters of judgment.»
«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.»
«Power is dangerous unless you have humility.»
Author: Richard J. Daley (Mayor) | About: Power
«Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.»
«Power is every stealing from the many to the few.»
Author: Wendell Phillips (Abolitionist, Orator) | About: Power | Keywords: stealing
«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»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: God, Law and lawyers, Power, Soul | Keywords: violating
«Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.»
«Power gravitates to the man who knows how.»
Author: Orison Swett Marden | About: Power | Keywords: gravitate, gravitates