Quotes about Love and Power

Carl Jung

Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.
Translation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

James Allen

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

James Burnham

Americans have not yet learned the tragic lesson that the most powerful cannot be loved—hated, envied, feared, obeyed, respected, even honored perhaps, but not loved.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Patricia Schroeder

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Rajneesh

Whenever there is love the woman blossoms. Without love, the woman shrinks. The men who love power never fall in love. Even if they fall in love they keep themselves at a distance.

Stephanie Coontz

For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve
purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Emily Dickinson

When a Lover is a Beggar Abject is his Knee. When a Lover is an Owner Different is he.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The older I get, the more determined I feel to do whatever I can to help release that human potential somehow. Not in a fluffy way nor in a hardcore way. But in that middle ground, that marriage of love and power. I'm not afraid of either.

Love and Power Quotes