Loss of Power Quotes

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.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

If you have to abuse your power, you're probably in the process of losing it.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men.

... all of our human experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

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

When you read history you that kings who have come to the end of their tether, as a rule, would suffer death rather than give up part of their power.

Trump doesn't know it yet, but he will become one of the guys that he hates very soon. Soon he will be a loser.

England has become the habitation of outsiders and the dominion of foreigners. Today, no Englishman is earl, bishop, or abbot, and newcomers gnaw away at the riches and very innards of England; nor is there any hope for an end of this misery.

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.

There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.

All great empires die from within.

Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

Dictatorships sometimes fall unexpectedly and quickly. And [Vladimir] Putin knows that for him, the loss of power doesn't mean a comfortable retirement, but something completely different.

Great Jove angry is no longer Jove.

I can't think of a scenario under which [Vladimir Putin] would gradually resign from power. For him and those around him, power became a source of unlimited enrichment. A loss of power would be tantamount to an annihilation of the economic success that has been achieved so far.

One way we could describe the struggle of life would be to say it is a battle between agency and addiction. Agency is our power to choose, and addiction is what happens when we have lost that power and we are controlled by something else.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.