"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power." ― John Steinbeck Topic(s): Power More From John Steinbeck "It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." More In Power "Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength."― Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton "Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more."― Gwen Stefani "Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic."― Alexis Carrel