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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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Power tires only those who do not have it.
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Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
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Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
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A word after a word after a word is power.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
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The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
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What doth it profit a man if he gains the who world and loses his own soul?
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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. [Job 1:21]
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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
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Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
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To create power is like a magnet, this is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you -- attracting to you things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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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.
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
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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. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
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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.
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The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Wherever there is power there is age.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind -- not the fiend or the sadist.
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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.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
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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.
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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.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
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If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
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The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.