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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
I still have great faith in democracy. I have great belief in the power of community.
Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
Everybody has to have their little tooth of power. Everybody wants to be able to bite.
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.
Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.
The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.
Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
Hiding our true thoughts and feelings is just one example of how we give our power away.
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
We would do well to ponder the realization that love is the most potent source of power.
Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.
Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.
A reluctant leader is highly suspicious of people who work to accumulate and hoard power.