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This page Power is part of the politics series.Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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This page Power is part of the politics series.
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.

"Right is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." -- Thucydides


"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"--John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

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Power is control and influence over another entity and its actions.

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List of powers central to this site

  • Black power, a slogan which describes the aspiration of many Africans (whether they be in Africa or abroad) to national self-determination.
  • Sexual power, Lady Macbeth is an ambitious woman who rules her husband with her sexual power
  • Steam power, during the Industrial Revolution, steam power displaced water power and muscle power (which often came from horses) as the primary source of powe
  • The Power Plant, Frankie Knuckles moved to another new venture in 1983
  • The Will to Power

Power may refer to:

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Computing

  • IBM Power (software), an IBM systems software operating system enhancement package
  • IBM POWER, a RISC microprocessor architecture
  • POW-R, a set of commercial dithering and noise shaping algorithms
  • power, a utility program for the CP/M operating system

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