What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

Power can be safely exercised only in the service of that which is ostensibly good. Power is like gasoline. Spread aimlessly over the landscape, it can result in an inferno, causing untold harm. Correctly contained, it can cook supper or transport us to Boston.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.

There is a difference between power and powerful. When you have power, you can hurt someone with it. But powerful is when you help someone in trouble, even if you don't benefit.

Power is essentially amoral and one of the most important skills to acquire is the ability to see circumstances rather than good or evil. Power is a game — this cannot be repeated too often — and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effect of their actions.

Power is like a pistol with barrels that point in both directions. When one with power pulls the trigger against someone with lesser power, one barrel fires in the direction of the intended victim while the other fires into the person who has pulled the trigger. As a weapon, power has little to offer. It germinates resentment and reaps hatred. It fosters the deep and abiding need for revenge. Power exercised without love releases an adverse Karma that returns to defeat us — where or when we never know. But it will return with all its destructive force, with all its gathered vengeance. Revenge is the bastard child of justice.

This is the single advantage of power, that it enables the holder to do more good.

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.

A thing of worth is what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough,compassion is enough.

I’ve learned that power is not bad, but the abuse of power or using power over others is the opposite of courage; it’s a desperate attempt to maintain a very fragile ego.

Power is organized effort, as has already been stated! Success is based upon power!

Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.