961 private quotes tagged power

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon

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“The measure of a man is what he does with power.” — Plato

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“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.” — Plato

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“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” — Lao Tzu

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“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.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.” — Tony Robbins

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“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?” — Khalil Gibran

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“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.” — Winston Churchill

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“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” — Voltaire

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.” — Josh Billings

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“There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.” — John Muir

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“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.” — Ayn Rand

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“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” — Voltaire

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“When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” — Akhenaton

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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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