961 private quotes tagged power

“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.” — James Madison

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“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” — Stephen Hawking

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“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.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” — Nido Qubein

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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” — Epicurus

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“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.” — Aristotle

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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” — Erich Fromm

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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.” — David Ogilvy

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“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” — James Madison

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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” — Voltaire

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“Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.” — Thomas Fuller

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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” — Winston Churchill

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” — Plutarch

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” — Winston Churchill

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