Power & Leadership Sayings

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he does not understand that it is in his power to be happy.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.

Stalin was the only foreign leader I ever respected.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

The English working class is nothing but a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others.

The Americans are a people who are always in motion, always changing, always seeking something new.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

The replacement of the power of the individual by the power of a community constitutes the decisive step of civilization.

The future of man is not in the stars but in the control of his own behavior.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I am looking for a man.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

A woman's loyalty is only as strong as her options.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Stare decisis, or the doctrine of precedent, is a device by which the errors of the past are made the rule of the future.

The essence of secrecy is that it is a form of power.

Moral rules are not arbitrary decrees, but conditions of social life.

Systematically distorted communication is a form of power.