Quotes On: Power

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.