Famous quotes containing the word power:
“If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertainedthen the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.”
—Walter Lippmann (18891974)
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mothers milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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