Power-Impotence

Time goes by: reputation increases, ability declines. (Dag Hammarskjold)

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with. (Russell Baker)

Where might is master, justice is servant. (German Proverb)

Where there is no might, right loses itself. (Portuguese Proverb)

There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force. (Napoleon I)

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton)

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated, there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged, that no honest seeking goes unrewarded. (Emerson)

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication. (Nietzsche)

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence. (George Santayana)