Quotes About Power

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A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Henry Miller

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Oscar Wilde

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Frank Herbert

When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace.

Jimi Hendrix

In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to help. It is enough that they exist. Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply. It is from these things that it flowers.

Pam Brown

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.

J. K. Rowling

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

Love is about giving freedom and power, not about gaining control or possession.

Jeffrey Fry