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    The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to read more

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Power Quotes,
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Power is not alluring to pure minds

Power is not alluring to pure minds

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Power Quotes,
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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere read more

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

by Unknown Found in: Power Quotes,
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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new
power.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new
power.

by William Ellery Channing Found in: Power Quotes,
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Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
[Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors read more

Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.
[Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]

by Pierre Corneille Found in: Power Quotes,
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his read more

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

by Ambrose Bierce Found in: Power Quotes,
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

by Epictetus Found in: Power Quotes,
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He hath no power that hath not power to use.

He hath no power that hath not power to use.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Power Quotes,
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