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| Use power to curb power. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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| The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth. Anthony Robbins Quotes |
| Knowledge itself is power. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Dr Samuel Johnson Quotes |
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| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Louis Armstrong Quotes |
| 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. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Quotes |
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| The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill Quotes |
| Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
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| It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Seneca Quotes |
| The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. William Hazlitt Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. Woody Allen Quotes |
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| What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. Aristotle Quotes |
| What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. Alexander Graham Bell Quotes |
| No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| A good intention clothes itself with power. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm Quotes |
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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 Lee Frost Quotes |
| I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller Quotes |
| Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell Quotes |
| He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes |
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| The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire Quotes |
| The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government. George Washington Quotes |
| Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson Quotes |
| "Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA." Anonymous Quotes |
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| Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. Edward Abbey Quotes |
| "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton Quotes |
| Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion. Henry Adams Quotes |
| It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.
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| "We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power." Matthew Boulton Quotes |
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| Remark to James Boswell when Boswell visited the Boulton-Watt factory. Matthew Boulton Quotes |
| We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to aflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. Martin Buber Quotes |
| Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. … We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard of power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself." Sir Winston Churchill Quotes |
| This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications... 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 Quotes |
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| "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble." Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." Henry Kissinger Quotes |
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| “I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away every thing else.” John Locke Quotes |
| The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
| The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: "Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big." William Proxmire Quotes |
| "Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous." William Proxmire Quotes |
| “Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction.” Ayn Rand Quotes |
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| The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton. Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes |
| In some countries a power exists which, though it is in a degree foreign to the social body, directs it, and forces it to pursue a certain track. In others the ruling force is divided, being partly within and partly without the ranks of the people. But nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States; there society governs itself for itself. All power centers in its bosom, and scarcely an individual is to be met with who would venture to conceive or, still less, to express the idea of seeking it elsewhere. The nation participates in the making of its laws by the choice of its legislators, and in the execution of them by the choice of the agents of the executive government; it may almost be said to govern itself, so feeble and so restricted is the share left to the administration, so little . do the authorities forget their popular origin and the power from which they emanate. The people reign in the American political world as the Deity does in the universe. They are the cause and the aim of all things; everything comes from them, and everything is absorbed in them. Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes |
| Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. Simone Weil Quotes |
| "But remember, when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it but by force. Many instances can be produced in which the people have voluntarily increased the powers of their rulers; but few, if any, in which rulers have willingly abridged their authority. This is a sufficient reason to induce you to be careful, in the first instance, how you deposit the powers of government.” Robert Yates Quotes |
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| 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. William E. Gladstone Quotes |
| I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice. Theodore Bikel Quotes |
| Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle. Shulamith Firestone Quotes |
| We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benét Quotes |
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| Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman Quotes |
| I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mohandas Gandhi Quotes |
| Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Nadine Gordimer Quotes |
| Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Quotes |
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| 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. Plato Quotes |
| Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims. Rabindranath Tagore Quotes |
| 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. Rachel Carson Quotes |
| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. Lord Acton Quotes |
| When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed. Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes |
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| 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. John Adams Quotes |
| 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. Kenneth Patton Quotes |
| When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix Quotes |
| [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 Joan B. Campbell Quotes |
| God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anouilh Quotes |
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| Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russell Lowell Quotes |
| No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski Quotes |
| No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. Gloria Steinem Quotes |
| Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Goethe Quotes |
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| 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] Henry Clay Quotes |
| Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Herbert Marcuse Quotes |
| 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. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. Elizabeth Dole Quotes |
| Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. Freda Adler Quotes |
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| 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. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass Quotes |
| Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here. (to her husband) Elizabeth Arden Quotes |
| It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment Elie Wiesel Quotes |
| The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. Cesar Chavez Quotes |
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| From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. Casey Miller and Kate Swift Quotes |
| 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. Carl Sagan Quotes |
| 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. C. S. Lewis Quotes |
| 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. Carl Jung Quotes |
| Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal Quotes |
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| 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. Audre Lorde Quotes |
| 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. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Quotes |
| Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. Kareem Abdul-Jabar Quotes |
| When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Quotes |
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| When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
| The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Brooks Adams Quotes |
| Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. John Quincy Adams Quotes |
| I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. Scott Adams Quotes |
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| Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity. William Adams Quotes |
| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. William Adams Quotes |
| There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. Æschylus Quotes |
| Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. Akhenaton Quotes |
| Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. Alcaeus Quotes |
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| Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| If you don't control your mind, someone else will. John Allston Quotes |
| The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same thing can be said of the most weak. Eric Ambler Quotes |
| If everything's under control, you're going too slow. Mario Andretti Quotes |
| Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. Barbara De Angelis Quotes |
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| The one who loves the least, controls the relationship. Robert Newton Anthony Quotes |
| Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. Julie Arabi Quotes |
| Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt Quotes |
| Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. Pietro Aretino Quotes |
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| Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. Aristotle Quotes |
| Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. Louis Quotes |
| As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever. Heini Arnold Quotes |
| We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood Quotes |
| Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; nine out of ten have the inclination. Paul Aubuchon Quotes |
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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. Marcus Aelius Aurelius Quotes |
| You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard David Bach Quotes |
| Men in Great Place are thrice Servants: Servants of the Sovereign or State; Servants of Fame; and Servants of Business … It is strange desire to seek Power and to lose Liberty. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. George Baker Quotes |
| The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin Quotes |
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| Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. James Arthur Baldwin Quotes |
| Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honoré de Balzac Quotes |
| Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation. Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. Quotes |
| Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. Erastus Flavel Beadle Quotes |
| Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. Robert F. Bennett Quotes |
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| A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. Robert F. Bennett Quotes |
| All power in human hands is liable to be abused. Sarah Bernhardt Quotes |
| The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. Mary Bertone Quotes |
| I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and Bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. Henry Bessemer Quotes |
| The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:7-8 Bible Quotes |
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| This ONLY is denied God: The power to undo the past. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Quotes |
| Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche. Victoria Billings Quotes |
| Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. Jim Quotes |
| Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds. Black Elk Quotes |
| It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. Smiley Blanton Quotes |
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| There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power. Angel Blessing Quotes |
| Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined. Irish Blessing Quotes |
| The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. Ludwig Boerne Quotes |
| If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Nicholas Boileau Quotes |
| Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono Quotes |
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| What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction. David L(yle) Boren Quotes |
| When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Phyllis Bottome Quotes |
| Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks. Carol Botwin Quotes |
| Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Nadia Boulanger Quotes |
| It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. [on gun control] James Brady Quotes |
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| The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. Anthony Brandt Quotes |
| A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. Fawn M. Brodie Quotes |
| Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. Phillips Brooks Quotes |
| The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. Lyman Bryson Quotes |
| If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition; if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. Henry Thomas Buckle Quotes |
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| We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke Quotes |
| 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. Dr. Quotes |
| Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. George Herbert Walker Bush Quotes |
| Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Eric Butterworth Quotes |
| Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. James Francis Byrnes Quotes |
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| When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. Julia Margaret Cameron Quotes |
| [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? Joan B. Campbell Quotes |
| For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little. Rachel Louise Carson Quotes |
| Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in. Wanda Carter Quotes |
| The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. Willa Sibert Cather Quotes |
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| We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. I cannot believe that such a programme would be rejected by the people of this country, even if it does mean the establishment of personal contact with the dictators. Neville Chamberlain Quotes |
| Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Quotes |
| Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes |
| Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it. I Ching Quotes |
| In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Tao Le Ching Quotes |
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| Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. Mary Cholmondeley Quotes |
| Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past. Noam Chomsky Quotes |
| How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension. Clement of Rome Quotes |
| The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House. William Jefferson Clinton Quotes |
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| A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. Benjamin Cohen Quotes |
| The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. Barbara Colorose Quotes |
| We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. Barbara Colorose Quotes |
| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. Charles Caleb Colton Quotes |
| We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. Charles Horton Cooley Quotes |
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| The greatest power is often simple patience. E(li) Joseph Cossman Quotes |
| When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. Emile Coue Quotes |
| The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses. Bryce Courtenay Quotes |
| An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. M. Shawn Covey Quotes |
| 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. Stephen R. Covey Quotes |
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| As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. Tench Coxe Quotes |
| We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. (John) Michael Crichton Quotes |
| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci Quotes |
| Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Emerich Edward Dalbert Quotes |
| To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. Arbie M. Dale Quotes |
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| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. Ron Dart Quotes |
| The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man; for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. Charles Darwin Quotes |
| The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward. Robyn Davidson Quotes |
| The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. Robyn Davidson Quotes |
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| Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. General Charles De Gaulle Quotes |
| Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Midge Dector Quotes |
| Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Vine Deloria Quotes |
| Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being. The Dhammapada Quotes |
| People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall. Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes |
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| The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen. John Sloan Dickey Quotes |
| If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Quotes |
| It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power. Ray Dickinson Quotes |
| Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off. Laertius Diogenes Quotes |
| Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Quotes |
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| Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere. John Donne Quotes |
| Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. (George) Norman Douglas Quotes |
| Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. Steve Droke Quotes |
| Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. David Duchovny Quotes |
| Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed. Lowell Duckett Quotes |
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| The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not. William Dugger Quotes |
| I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. Wayne W(alter) Dyer Quotes |
| The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time. Johannes Quotes |
| To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. Tryon Edwards Quotes |
| The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. Tryon Edwards Quotes |
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| The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled catastrophes. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein Quotes |
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| As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. Abd Er-Rahman III Quotes |
| The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides Quotes |
| The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. Michael Faraday Quotes |
| Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength and the courage that we need. François de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelo Quotes |
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| The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.' Herbert Fenstermeim Quotes |
| 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(rancis) Scott Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes |
| Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites. Sigmund Freud Quotes |
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| The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life-freedom. Erich Fromm Quotes |
| We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. J(ames) William Fulbright Quotes |
| I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Quotes |
| True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
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| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. John W(illiam) Gardner Quotes |
| Ideas control the world. James Abram Garfield Quotes |
| There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. Michael Gartner Quotes |
| Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. Allen Ginsberg Quotes |
| The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. Bhagavad Gita Quotes |
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| We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. William E(dwart) Gladstone Quotes |
| 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. Maurice Godelier Quotes |
| Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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| Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. Ellen Goodman Quotes |
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| If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon Quotes |
| The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves). Stephen Jay Gould Quotes |
| Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. Katherine Graham Quotes |
| It is suggested that, in [domestic violence] at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment. Colin Greenwood Quotes |
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| No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. Colin Greenwood Quotes |
| Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it. Germaine Greer Quotes |
| The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. John P. Grier Quotes |
| Keep controlling morality of others. Yours will be automatically taken care of. B. J. Gupta Quotes |
| Creation and redemption are the spheres in which these glories are displayed. In creation we see the eternal power and deity that belong to God alone (Rom. 1:20); while a deeper and richer glory is unfolded in the wondrous cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. There God is fully revealed, not only in terms of His dominion and deity, but in His holiness, love, and grace. At the Cross I learn what creation could never tell me--who God is and what He is to me, a guilty sinner. God is love; therefore, He is both light and life. A Savior-God! What marvelous grace and glory. William Hallman Quotes |
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| In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| Power may be justly compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed; it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
| In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you. Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Quotes |
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| Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power. Gerard Hargraves Quotes |
| There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. William Henry Harrison Quotes |
| Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. Václav Havel Quotes |
| Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. Ernest Miller Hemingway Quotes |
| Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think. Robert Henri Quotes |
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| You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. Herman Hesse Quotes |
| Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest. Cullen Hightower Quotes |
| Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. Napolean Hill Quotes |
| It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
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| Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. Marjorie Holmes Quotes |
| Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself. Herbert Clark Hoover Quotes |
| I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you! Ty Howard Quotes |
| While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. Charles Evans Hughes Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation…. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
| Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
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| What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem? Bits and pieces … trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are … those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. Yoshimi Ishikawa Quotes |
| It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. Clive James Quotes |
| Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it. Clive James Quotes |
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| The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Dr. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. Lyndon Baines Johnson Quotes |
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| Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power. Susan Johnson Quotes |
| I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. Erica Mann Jong Quotes |
| We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility. Barbara Charline Jordan Quotes |
| Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality. Jon Kabit-Zinn Quotes |
| It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes |
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| The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. Margo Kaufman Quotes |
| It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. Helen Adams Keller Quotes |
| Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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| The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| 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 his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
| I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Quotes |
| [Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials.] I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev Quotes |
| If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! Søren Aaby Kierkegaard Quotes |
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| The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. T. Starr King Quotes |
| 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. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
| Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling Quotes |
| Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling Quotes |
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| The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
| Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry Alfred Kissinger Quotes |
| The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. J. Martin Kohe Quotes |
| Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it. Charles Krauthammer Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. Stanley Kubrick Quotes |
| Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe. Christine Lane Quotes |
| Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. Lao-Tzu Quotes |
| We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again. D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence Quotes |
| Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control. David Layson Quotes |
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| Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes |
| The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities. Ursula K. LeGuin Quotes |
| Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman Quotes |
| A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. Primo Levi Quotes |
| To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. Georg Christopher Lichtenberg Quotes |
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| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Raymond Lindquist Quotes |
| Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
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| The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert. Vincent Thomas Quotes |
| Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russel Lowell Quotes |
| Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty. James Russel Lowell Quotes |
| A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison Quotes |
| I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison Quotes |
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| Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes |
| When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success. Orison Swett Marden Quotes |
| Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. General George Catlett Marshall Quotes |
| It's [the Brady Act] taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets. Dennis Martin Quotes |
| Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. Giuseppe Mazzini Quotes |
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| Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. Joseph Mazzini Quotes |
| Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. Michael Mc Clary Quotes |
| Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. Michael McClary Quotes |
| I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power. David McCord Quotes |
| Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick Quotes |
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| What should we emphasize in our teaching? We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us! Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it. Mark McGee Quotes |
| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Herbert Quotes |
| To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. Peter McWilliams Quotes |
| The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. Margaret Mead Quotes |
| Knowing that I am not the one in control gives great encouragement. Knowing the One who is in control is everything. Alexander Michael Quotes |
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| A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be. Henry Miller Quotes |
| Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love. Mary Manin Morrissey Quotes |
| Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes |
| Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. Flower A. Newhouse Quotes |
| In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Newman Quotes |
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| Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes |
| Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Quotes |
| The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Earl Nightingale Quotes |
| My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford) Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
| Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. Richard Milhouse Nixon Quotes |
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| We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. Kahlil Gibran Quotes |
| The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. Baltasar Gracian Quotes |
| An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
| Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. Malcolm X Quotes |
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| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. George Orwell Quotes |
| Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes |
| You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! Amy Tan Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Dr. Thomas Fuller Quotes |
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| Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel Quotes |
| If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? Harry Shearer Quotes |
| The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. John Stuart Mill Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes |
| Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton Quotes |
| The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. Lord Macaulay Quotes |
| 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 Quotes |
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| Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon Quotes |
| We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes |
| We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart L. Udall Quotes |
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