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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it.
Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.
Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Human beings actually have quite a bit of willpower. They don't know too much about it, but they have quite a bit.
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism.
There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Life is the power to perceive. Without perception there is no life, and what is most endemic to perception is power.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes.
There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.