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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.
Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one
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.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
Economic power is not the same as strength of national character. Our country may be rich in goods, but we are poor in spirit.
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.
But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
If you have power, you might be able to heal a person. You could actually get inside their cell structures and create a change.
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
There is value in being free and spontaneous but the greatest power comes from seeing and using what results from that freedom.
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.