The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things read more

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; read more

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love

Those have most power to hurt us, that we love

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough read more

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

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

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