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Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.
Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.
O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.
We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
No influence so quickly converts a radical into a reactionary as does his election to power.
Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power.
How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.
Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.