Power Quotes
Let them hate, so long as they fear.Power
Accius
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Acton, Lord
1834-1902 British Historian
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Adams, Abigail
1744-1818 American Letter Writer
A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Adams, Henry Brooks
1838-1918 American Historian
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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Adams, John
1735-1826 Second President of the USA
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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Aeschylus
BC 525-456 Greek Dramatist
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Aldrich, Withrop
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Alinsky, Saul
1909-1972 American Radical Activist
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
Power tires only those who do not have it.
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Andreotti, Giulio
1919 Italian Christian Democrat Politician Prime Minister
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
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Apocrypha
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
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Archimedes
c 287-12212 BC Greek Mathematician
A word after a word after a word is power.
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Atwood, Margaret
1939 Canadian Novelist Poet Critic
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Aurelius, Marcus
121-80 AD Roman Emperor Philosopher
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man s self.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Balzac, Honore De
1799-1850 French Novelist
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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Banks, Harry F.
The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
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Bannister, Roger
1929 British Athlete First Sub 4 Minute Miler
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Barthes, Roland
1915-1980 French Semiologist
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It s very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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Baudrillard, Jean
French Postmodern Philosopher Writer
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Benet, Stephen Vincent
1989-1943 American Novelist Poet
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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Bevan, Aneurin
1897-1960 British Labor Politician
What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Woman s influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
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Boseley, Sarah
British Journalist
To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.
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Bristol, Claude M.
1891-1951 American Author of The Magic of Believing
Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Bronowski, Jacob
1908-1974 British Scientist Author
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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Bruyere, Jean De La
1645-1696 French Classical Writer
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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Burke, Edmund
1729-1797 British Political Writer Statesman
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Burke, Edmund
1729-1797 British Political Writer Statesman
Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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Byrnes, James F.
1879-1972 American Judge Secretary of State
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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Camus, Albert
1913-1960 French Existential Writer
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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Capone, Al
1899-1947 American Gangster
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Carnegie, Andrew
1835-1919 American Industrialist Philanthropist
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior s spirit. It takes power to do that.
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Castaneda, Carlos
American Anthropologist Author
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Charles V
1500-1558 King of Spain Holy Roman Emperor
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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Cooley, Charles Horton
1864-1929 American Sociologist
The greatest power is often simple patience.
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Cossman, E. Joseph
American Businessman Author Lecturer
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
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Cotvos
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Covey, Stephen R.
American Speaker Trainer Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can t have it. The minute you don t want power, you ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Dass, Ram
American Spiritual Author Lecturer
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Dryden, John
1631-1700 British Poet Dramatist Critic
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
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Dworkin, Andrea
1946 American Feminist Critic
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
If you haven t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965 American-born British Poet Critic
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
A good indignation brings out all one s powers.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Wherever there is power there is age.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Epictetus
50-120 Stoic Philosopher
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Fosdick, Harry Emerson
1878-1969 American Minister
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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Foucault, Michel
1926-1984 French Essayist Philosopher
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Friedman, Milton
1912 American Economist
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Friedman, Milton
1912 American Economist
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.
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Fromm, Erich
1900-1980 American Psychologist
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
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Frost, Robert
1875-1963 American Poet
Our power is in our ability to decide.
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Fuller, Buckminster
American Engineer Inventor Designer Architect Geodesic Dome
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Fuller, Thomas
1608-1661 British Clergyman Author
Power doesn t corrupt people, people corrupt power.
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Gaddis, William
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
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Gandhi, Mahatma
1869-1948 Indian Political Spiritual Leader
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it s also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Genet, Jean
1910-1986 French Playwright Novelist
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
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Gordon, Charles
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
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Guin, Ursula K. Le
1929 American Author
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
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Haliburton, Thomas C.
1796-1865 Canadian Jurist Author
Power over a man s subsistence amounts to power over his will.
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Hamilton, Alexander
1757-1804 American Statesman
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Havel, Vaclav
1936 Czech Playwright President
The point of power is always in the present moment.
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Hay, Louise L.
American Metaphysical Teacher Lecturer Author
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
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Herrich
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Calmness is the cradle of power.
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Holland, Josiah Gilbert
1819-1881 American Author
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
The law always limits every power it gives.
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Hume, David
1711-1776 Scottish Philosopher Historian
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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Johnson, Lyndon B.
1908-1973 Thirty-sixth President of the USA
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
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Jordan, William George
Authority is not power; that s coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that s persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
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Kahn, Herman
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
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Kazantzakis, Nikos
1883-1957 Greek Writer
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
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Kinkel
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Kissinger, Henry
1923 American Republican Politician Secretary of State
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Kohe, J. Martin
American Publisher Author
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
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Lerner, Max
1902 American Author Columnist
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man s character, give him power.
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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Lincoln, Abraham
1809-1865 Sixteenth President of the USA
Power? It s like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Macmillan, Harold
1894-1986 British Conservative Politician Prime Minister
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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Malcolm X
1925-1965 American Black Leader Activist
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
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Mann, Horace
1796-1859 American Educator
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
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Mencken, H. L.
1880-1956 American Editor Author Critic Humorist
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
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Morgenthau, Hans J.
1904-1980 German American Political Scientist
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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Niebuhr, Reinhold
1892-1971 American Theologian Historian
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Orwell, George
1903-1950 British Author Animal Farm
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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Orwell, George
1903-1950 British Author Animal Farm
The property of power is to protect.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
The look of a king is itself a deed.
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Paul, Jean
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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Peter, Laurence J.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Phillips, Wendell
1811-1884 American Reformer Orator
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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Pitt, William
1759-1806 British Statesman
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Pittacus
650-570 ªBC Statesman from Ancient Greece
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
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Proverb
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
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Proverb
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
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Proverb, Arabian
Sayings of Arabian Origin
Voice of one, voice of none.
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Proverb, Italian
Sayings of Italian Origin
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
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Proverb, Spanish
Sayings of Spanish Origin
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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Raleigh, Sir Walter
1552-1618 British Courtier Navigator Writer
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that s real power.
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Rand, Ayn
1905-1982 Russian Writer Philosopher
He has the power who the majority believe in.
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Raupach
I feel it now: there s a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
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Rilke, Rainer Maria
1875-1926 German Poet
Personal power is the ability to take action.
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Robbins, Anthony
1960 American Author Speaker Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
1882-1945 Thirty-second President of the USA
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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Roosevelt, Theodore
1858-1919 Twenty-sixth President of the USA
There is an urgent need -- in fact a national survival need -- for invigorating intellectual life, for upgrading the general regard for intellectual excellence. The United States must experience an intellectual renaissance or it will experience defeat. The time cannot be far off -- if indeed it is not already here -- when the strength of a nation, measured in terms of any kind of world competition, will depend less on the number of its bombs than on the number of its learned men.
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Roper, Elmo
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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Rostand, Jean
1894-1977 French Biologist Writer
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
1759-1805 German Dramatist Poet Historian
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
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Schreiner, Olive
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Seneca
4 BC – 65 AD Spanish-born Roman Statesman philosopher
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
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Shakespeare, William
1564-1616 British Poet Playwright Actor
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
1792-1822 British Poet
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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Singer, Isaac Bashevis
1904-1991 Polish-born American Journalist Writer
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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Smith, Sydney
1771-1845 British Writer Clergyman
You only have power over people so long as you don t take everything away from them. But when you ve robbed a man of everything he s no longer in your power -- he s free again.
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
1918 Russian Novelist
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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Steffens, Lincoln
1866-1936 American Journalist
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Steinem, Gloria
1934 American Feminist Writer Editor
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman s only path to power.
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Steinem, Gloria
1934 American Feminist Writer Editor
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
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Stevenson, Adlai E.
1900-1965 American Lawyer Politician
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Swift, Jonathan
1667-1745 Anglo-Irish Satirist
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
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Syrus, Publilius
1st Century BC Roman Writer
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
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Tennyson, Lord Alfred
1809-1892 British Poet
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren t.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
I shan t be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren t.
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Thatcher, Margaret
1925 British Stateswoman Prime Minister (1979-90)
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
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Tillich, Paul
1886-1965 German Protestant Theologian Philosopher
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
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Tilly
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.
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Tilney, Dr. Frederick
French Brain Specialist
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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Udall, Stewart
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
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Vaneigem, Raoul
1934 Belgian Situationist Philosopher
Power s footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
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Vere, Sir Aubrey De
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
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Vidal, Gore
1925 American Novelist Critic
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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Vizinczey, Stephen
1933 Hungarian Novelist Critic
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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Walpole, Horace
1717-1797 British Author
The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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Weil, Simone
1910-1943 French Philosopher Mystic
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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White, Theodore
What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.
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Wieder, Marcia
American Speaker Trainer Author
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
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Wilson, Woodrow T.
1856-1924 Twenty-eighth President of the USA
with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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Wordsworth, William
1770-1850 British Poet
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Zedong, Mao
1893-1976 Founder of Chinese Communist State