It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy doubt or fear.

The public is not to see where power lies how it shapes policy and for what ends. Rather people are to hate and fear one another.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

There is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light not our Darkness that most frightens us.