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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
– Frederick Douglass
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
– Peter F. Drucker
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
– Peter F. Drucker
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Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
– Andrea Dworkin
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
– Ossie Davis
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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
– Vine Deloria, Jr.
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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
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Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
– Steve Droke
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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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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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
– George Eliot
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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
– Michael Ende
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Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
– Paul Engle
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
– Epictetus
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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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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
– Steve Forbes
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
– Michel Foucault
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The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
– Michel Foucault
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
– Felix Frankfurter
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
– Marilyn French
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
– Milton Friedman
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
– Milton Friedman
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
– Erich Fromm
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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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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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The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
– Robert Frost
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
– William Gaddis
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A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
– Indira Gandhi
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
– James A. Garfield
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
– Charles de Gaulle
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
– Charles de Gaulle
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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?
– Kahlil Gibran
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
– Jackie Gleason
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
– Nadine Gordimer
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
– Baltasar Gracian
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
– Robert Hall
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Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
– Alexander Hamilton
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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
– Sydney J. Harris
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
– Vaclav Havel
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
– Vaclav Havel
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
– William Hazlitt
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
– Jimi Hendrix
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
– Patrick Henry
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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
– Napoleon Hill
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The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
– Thomas Hobbes
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It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
– Eric Hoffer
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It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
– Eric Hoffer
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
– Eric Hoffer
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The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
– Eric Hoffer
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
– Eric Hoffer
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
– J. G. Holland
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
– J. G. Holland
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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
– Herbert Hoover
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
– Herbert Hoover
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
– Mark Hopkins
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
– John Howe
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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
– Thomas Hughes
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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
– David Hume
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
– Aldous Huxley
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
– Aldous Huxley
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The point of power is always in the present moment.
– Louise L. Hay
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
– Washington Irving
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
– John F. Kennedy
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
– John F. Kennedy
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
– Charles Kingsley
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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
– Henry A. Kissinger
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Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
– Stanley Kubrick
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
– Milan Kundera
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
– Milan Kundera
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.
– Paul Kagame
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The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
– Kenneth Kaunda
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
– Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
– Bruce Lee
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
– Vladimir Lenin
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
– C. S. Lewis
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
– C. S. Lewis
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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
– Rush Limbaugh
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
– Rush Limbaugh
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
– Abraham Lincoln
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
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The law has no power over heroes.
– Charlotte Lennox
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