How shall I be able to rule over others that have not full power and command of myself?
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness looking instead for authority validation and approval from others we give our personal power away.
All things by immortal power. Near of far to each other linked are that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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.
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.
Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others nor our own powerlessness stupefy us.
If women be educated for dependence that is to act according to the will of another fallible being and submit right or wrong to power where are we to stop?
To free us from the expectations of others to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great singular power of self-respect.
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.
It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do especially in Philadelphia in 1787 four months they argued about what a House should be what a Senate should be the power of the president the Congress the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Next to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
If you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence the power you have over other people's lives.
Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.
A man who lives right and is right has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?
All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.