I believe the gun has no power at all.
The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else!
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
My relationship to power and authority is that I’m all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
Order is power.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
I believe in the power of weakness.
Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
Power is paradoxical.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
The only power you have is the word no.
Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
