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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton, English historian
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Douglas Adams, English author
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the US
"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even."
Muhammad Ali, boxing legend
"I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven."
Woody Allen, movie director/producer
"Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, there, if one must speak out, the real man."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Roman leader
"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people."
Aristotle, philosopher
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Uncle Ben to Peter Parker in Spiderman
"Knowledge itself is power."
Sir Francis Bacon, author
"What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it."
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
"All power in human hands is liable to be abused."
Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
George Walker Bush, 43rd President of the US
"We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves."
(John) Michael Crichton, author
"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."
General Charles De Gaulle, former French president
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes."
Albert Einstein, scientist
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."
Benjamin Franklin, US scientist, inventor
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself."
Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the US
"Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables
"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the US
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King, Jr, US clergyman, civil rights activist
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize winner
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the US
"Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power."
Malcolm X, civil rights activist
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
George Orwell, author
Posted by Abdullah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on 6 October 2009 at 03:17 UAE time
I'm Saudi, and I don't think Fayez Al Maliki should make any list here. No disrespect, but he's no where near any influencial status, he's not the best saudi actor, he's not very popular. he's the subject of jokes. it's just that MBC and Rotana keeps enforcing him and other nobodys in our Ramadan after breakfast time! he's not the director, he's not the guy behind this (Prince Al-Waleed)...I'm not sure i'd be interested in reading your lists again if the #10 is a nobody!
Posted by umar farooq, Lahore, Pakistan on 24 July 2009 at 09:41 UAE time
Must be quite inetersting to know the Power 100
Posted by Sami, Beirut, Lebanon on 22 May 2009 at 19:08 UAE time
I can't deny that I'm a bit surprised with the list... Also surprised that many names are very new to me... But that's a good thing, for then I can search and find out who they are (tried it on some, and it's amazing what people have been achieving)...
But 2 quick remarks:
- Couldn't but be proud to be Lebanese, seeing that 17 names out of the hundred came out of our small country, which is war torn and has one of the lowest populations... I'm just wondering if all our Middle East finds peace, how much can we all achieve!
- One has to still admit that the ratio of men to women is quite high... Although some women made the list, but it's clear that we still live in a society that doesn't give women all the potential to realise themselves...
Great work and I have some more searching to do :)
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