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A collection of top quotations and sayings about power.

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Power is what enables us to do something, and as such, is fundamental to the growth of our society. Having the power of controlling one's urges is considered a virtue by spiritual leaders and philosophers. However, power has a particularly significant connotation in the field of politics as power can both be granted and be assumed. It is the distribution and exercise of power that defines and shapes political entities around the world. Considering the fact that most authoritarian regimes seize immense power unlawfully instead of being given, it has become a proverbial saying that power tends to corrupt. Every sensible human being should put an effort to ensure that power is entrusted on responsible hands that work towards the welfare of all. As we go through the below quotes, we will see how great minds throughout history have reminded us to be responsible about exercising power.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Oscar Wilde

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
J. K. Rowling

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
J. K. Rowling

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius

A word after a word after a word is power.

A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
George Carlin

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
Orhan Pamuk

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
Orhan Pamuk

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
Margaret Atwood

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Rumi

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret Atwood

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Mahatma Gandhi

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.
August Wilson

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
Emily Brontë

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.

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.
Aung San Suu Kyi

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George Orwell

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
Orhan Pamuk

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft