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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
The objective laws of form and color help to strengthen a person's powers and to expand his creative gift.
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.
more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power.
The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.
We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.