The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half - awake. We are...

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half - awake. We are...

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you...

The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

The power, which resides in man, is new in nature, and none but he knows...

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself...

If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself...

We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the...

We in America are fighting the money power; but if men can elsewhere get the...

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things...how infantile!

We want to be all things, not just to gain power over things...how infantile!

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and...

Some come to a teacher for power. They still have all the desires, angers and...

When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he...

When willpower is not guided, it's terrible. Hitler had a lot of will. But he...

Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the...

Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the...

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem...

Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem...

The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person...

The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person...

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better...

People want power but not wisdom. Power without wisdom is a very dangerous thing. Better...

Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom...

Whatever you want you can get, when you understand the secret of will. But wisdom...

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them...

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them...

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into...

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into...