To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf not gun cabinet or wallet.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949 he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.