“Power wears out those who do not have it.”

“In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with annotations of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults.”

Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”

Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015) American Mormon leader

“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“those huaraches--do you have to wear them, Camilla? Do you have to emphasize the fact that you always were and always will be a filthy little Greaser?”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

“This is a mournful discovery.
1)Those who agree with you are insane
2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”

Philip G. Zimbardo (1933) American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment

“From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with--and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with--the perceived entitlement.”

Derrick Jensen book The Culture of Make Believe

“Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author