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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
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Lucius Accius(170 BC– ?, Roman tragic poet and playwright) |
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| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Lord Acton(1834-1902, British historian) |
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| Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Abigail Adams(1744-1818, American First Lady) |
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| A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Henry Brooks Adams(1838-1918, American historian) |
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| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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John Adams(1735-1826, American President (2nd)) |
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| The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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Aeschylus(525-456 BC, Greek dramatist) |
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| The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Withrop Aldrich |
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| Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Saul Alinsky(1909-1972, American radical activist) |
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| 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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Claude M. Bristol(1891-1951, American author of The Magic Of Believing) |
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| 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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Edmund Burke(1729-1797, British political writer, statesman) |
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| Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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Henri Frederic Amiel(1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic) |
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| Power tires only those who do not have it.
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Giulio Andreotti(1919-, Italian Prime Minister) |
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| Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
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Apocrypha(A collection of fourteen books written after the last book of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and before the first book of the Christian Scriptures (New Testament).) |
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| Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
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Archimedes(c. 287-12212 BC, Greek mathematician) |
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| A word after a word after a word is power.
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Margaret Atwood(1939-, Canadian novelist, poet, critic) |
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| 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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Marcus Aurelius(121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher) |
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| 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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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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Francis Bacon(1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman) |
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| 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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James Baldwin(1924-1987, American author) |
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| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Honore De Balzac(1799-1850, French novelist) |
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| Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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Harry F. Banks |
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| 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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Roger Bannister(1929-, British athlete, first person in the world to run a mile under 4 minutes) |
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| I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Roland Barthes(1915-1980, French semiologist) |
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| 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
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Jean Baudrillard(French postmodern philosopher, writer) |
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| We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Stephen Vincent Benet(1989-1943, American novelist, poet) |
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| The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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Aneurin Bevan(1897-1960, British politician) |
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| Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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Josh Billings(1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer) |
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| 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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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Power is founded upon opinion.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| 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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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
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Sarah Boseley(British journalist) |
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| All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power™.
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Ashleigh Brilliant(1933-, British-American humorist) |
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| Power is the by-product of understanding.
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Jacob Bronowski(1908-1974, British scientist, author) |
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| Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton(1803-1873, British novelist, poet) |
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| I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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Edmund Burke(1729-1797, British political writer, statesman) |
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| 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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James F. Byrnes(1879-1972, American judge, secretary of state) |
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| 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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Albert Camus(1913-1960, French existential writer) |
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| 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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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| 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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Stephen R. Covey(1932-, American speaker, trainer, author of The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People) |
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| You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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Al Capone(1899-1947, American gangster) |
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| Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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Andrew Carnegie(1835-1919, American industrialist, philanthropist) |
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| 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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Carlos Castaneda(1925-, American anthropologist, author) |
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| So, our lives, in acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but doth to others give matter for virtuous deeds by which we live.
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John Jay Chapman(1862-1933, American author) |
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| Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Charles V(1500-1558, Spanish King) |
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| Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
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William Pitt Chatham(1708 -1778, British statesman) |
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| 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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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| 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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Charles Horton Cooley(1864-1929, American sociologist) |
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| 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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Ram Dass(1931-, American spiritual author, lecturer) |
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