We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Love is the most durable power in the world.
The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.
If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.
You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
Gases are distinguished from other forms of matter, not only by their power of indefinite expansion so as to fill any vessel, however large, and by the great effect heat has in dilating them, but by the uniformity and simplicity of the laws which regulate these changes.
The common ingredient in every single dysfunction is an issue of power.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion.
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.
You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.
The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.
Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.