961 private quotes tagged power

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

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

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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” — George Eliot

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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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“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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“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.” — Joan Didion

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“There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” — Plato

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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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“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” — Carl Sagan

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“I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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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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“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” — Muhammad Ali

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“The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.” — David Bowie

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“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” — Bo Bennett

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“Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.” — John W. Gardner

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