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Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Alexander Hamilton
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Lincoln Steffens
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry Kissinger
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Stephen Covey
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Samuel Smiles
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry Adams
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Emerich Edward Dalbert
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Rudolph Rocker
Power never takes a back step – only in the face of more power.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Malcolm X
Practice yourself what you preach.
Quote, saying and phrase by: Titus Maccius Plautus