Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

American Gods

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

All the Pretty Horses

Dream big, you are powerful. You can exceed all your expectations

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Allegiant

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

Allan Quatermain

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

Ascending

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

Her Outback Man

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Humility

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I only want power so I can get books.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Herzog

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

The House of the Scorpion

But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

Intimate Communion

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Invisible Monsters

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

Insight

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

I Know This Much Is True

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.

On The Journey To Achievement

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

Jo's Boys