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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.
[C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.
A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts And power to him who power exerts; Hast not thy share? On winged feet, Lo! it rushes thee to meet; . . .
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.
I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
I don't want to be fake. I'm just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue.
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.