961 private quotes tagged power

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” — Aristotle

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

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

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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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“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“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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“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” — Albert Einstein

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

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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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“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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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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“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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