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Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field.
Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
Power is America's last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money - and much easier to talk about sex - than it is to talk about power.
An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.
The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you.
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.
I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.
There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.