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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.

People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.

Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.