Power Quotes
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan (1952 - )
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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.”
Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix quotes (American rock Guitarist, Composer and Singer who fused American traditions of blues, jazz, rock, and soul with techniques of British avant-garde rock to redefine the electric guitar in his own image. 1942-1970)
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
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When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.”
Aristotle quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC)
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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 quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn:
You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power.
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Audre Lorde:
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Blaise Pascal:
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
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C. S. Lewis:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Carl Jung:
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Carl Sagan:
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough,
we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
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Casey Miller and Kate Swift:
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.
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Charles A. Beard:
All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Elizabeth Arden:
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. (to her husband)
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Elizabeth Dole:
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.
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Freda Adler:
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
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Frederick Douglass:
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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Frederick Douglass:
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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Frederick Douglass:
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
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George Bernard Shaw:
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
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Gloria Steinem:
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Goethe:
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Henry Clay:
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. [1834]
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Jacob Bronowski:
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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James Russell Lowell:
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
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Jean Anouilh:
God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
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Jimi Hendrix:
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
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Joan B. Campbell:
[Jesus'] ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made -- life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?
Sojourners, August-September, 1991
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John Adams:
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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Kenneth Patton:
The right is not created in the exercise of power, but if the right does not have the power to become established, then power will rule of itself.
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Lord Acton:
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Marian Wright Edelman:
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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Nadine Gordimer:
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Paulo Freire:
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
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Plato:
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.
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Rabindranath Tagore:
Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.
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Rachel Carson:
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Shulamith Firestone:
Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
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Stephen Vincent Benét:
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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Thomas Jefferson:
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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William E. Gladstone :
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin (1950 - )
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
John Lehman (1942 - ), Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. Joseph Farrell
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public. Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet (1898 - 1943), Litany for Dictatorships, 1935
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart L. Udall (1920 - ), commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 13, 1965
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), letter to Mary A. Hulbert, September 21, 1913
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