Power Breeds Quotes

#1. Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic
or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

Irving Kristol

#2. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

Steve Forbes

#3. The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

Jack McDevitt

#4. Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

Steve Biko

#5. Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here.

David Byrne

#6. Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Anne Lamott

#7. And they are torturing Muslims, and their drones are bombing wedding parties (by accident!), and the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exulting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#8. Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

Kevyn Aucoin

#9. The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

Gregory Maguire

#10. I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.

Gregory Maguire

#11. Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Ameen Rihani

#12. He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

Buddha

#13. Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.

Elizabeth Bear

#14. You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!

Britney Spears

#15. The world shrinks to include only two people, only one of whom -- the beloved -- has power. This inequitable distribution naturally breeds resentment and feelings of hopelessness that the dependent person dare not express for fear of alienating the necessary person even more.

Jeanne Safer

#16. Only survivors are allowed the luxury of sadness.

Mike Mullin

#17. Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

David Letterman

#18. Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Andrew Solomon

#19. Truth is the only good and the purest pity ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.

Storm Jameson

#20. In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

Barbara Holland