Power

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
Power
Being
Man
Rules
Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno
Love
Power
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler
Power
Church
Numbers
Today
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
Art
Experience
Power
Potential
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Joseph Addison
Power
Man
Mind
Nothing
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams
Nature
Power
Authority
Earth
Law
Liberty
Man
Will
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Power
People
Maxim
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Power
Thought
Choice
Liberty
Metaphysics
Self
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
Power
Soul
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
Power
God
Laws
Service
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Power
Society
Character
Authority
Importance
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Government
Power
Trust
Danger
Liberty
Living
Man
Maxim
Public
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams
Power
Friend
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. Adams
Men
Power
Effect
Killing
Publicity
Self
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams
Power
Energy
Facts