961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” — Robert Frost

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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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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” — James Madison

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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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“No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.” — Friedrich Schiller

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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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“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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“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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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” — Albert Einstein

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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Money: power at its most liquid.” — Mason Cooley

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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” — Woodrow Wilson

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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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“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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