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Power
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Lao-Tzu
Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Macmillan, Harold
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Cooley, Charles Horton
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Will is character in action.
Mcdougall, William
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
Gaddis, William
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Dworkin, Andrea
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Friedman, Milton
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Amiel, Henri Frederic
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Vere, Sir Aubrey De
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Baltasar Gracian
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
Vidal, Gore
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Tillich, Paul
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry Shearer
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Steffens, Lincoln
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
Lois McMaster Bujold
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Russell, Bertrand
Power is the by-product of understanding.
Bronowski, Jacob
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Genet, Jean
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Covey, Stephen R.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
Hamilton, Alexander
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
Vizinczey, Stephen
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Carnegie, Andrew
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Lincoln, Abraham
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Macarthur, Douglas
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Mencken, H. L.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
Kazantzakis, Nikos
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Wilson, Woodrow T.
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Proverb, Arabian
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Proverb, Spanish
Personal power is the ability to take action.
Robbins, Anthony
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Thatcher, Margaret
Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Billings, Josh
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Hugo, Victor
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Gandhi, Mahatma
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Cotvos
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Fuller, Buckminster
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Bruyere, Jean De La
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
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Proverb
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