Quotes about power
213 quotes from 148 people
Tacitus55–120Histories (100-110), Book IV, 17
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to Conservative Central Council (15 March 1986)Nonresistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The Law of Love and the Law of Violence (1908)
Anthony Trollope1815–1882The Duke’s Children (1879), Ch. 66The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.
Harry S. Truman1884–1972Address to Congress (April 16, 1945)
Donald Trumpborn 1946Interview with Glenn Plaskin, Playboy (March 1990)I am the law, and I am the judge! I am the oppressed, and there is the oppressor!
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cold Turkey (2004)All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office.
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham (9 January 1790)
Simone Weil1909–1943The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 192People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
Joss Whedonborn 1964“Mom, He’s Doing It Again..”, at Whedonesque.com (10 November 2007)
