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| Power Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. | Acton | Lord |
| 2 | An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality. | Addison | Joseph |
| 3 | Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been. | Aeschylus | |
| 4 | Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect. | Bacon | |
| 5 | It is a miserable state of mind, to have few things to desire and many things to fear: and yet is the case of Kings. | Bacon | |
| 6 | He hath no power that hath not power to use. | Bailey | |
| 7 | All human power is a compound of time and patience. | Balzac | Honore de |
| 8 | Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. | Balzac | Honore de |
| 9 | Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power. | Nietzsche | Friedrich |
| 10 | If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control onself of all. | Buddha | |
| 111 quotations on Power |



