#Power

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"I need to be gentler, I said definitively to myself, as I clenched my fist and shook it in the air. Love takes flight like two powerful wings, but hits like a collection of feathers."

"My heart only grows more powerful the more my flowing love goes unabsorbed, unobserved, and unappreciated."

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am"

"Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions."

"I only want power so I can get books."

"a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done"

"Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum."

"It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers."

"I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people."

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute."

"Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost"

"This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills."

"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter."

"The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity."

"Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?"

"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor."

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."