Power Quotes
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[Adolf] Hitler succeeded once upon a time to conquer all the big powers within two or three years and occupied all Europe, North Africa, and arrived at the gates of Moscow. This is not the real power. Real power is something completely different.
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The maximum of motive power resulting from the employment of steam is also the maximum of motive power realizable by any means whatever.
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So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
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You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
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Principles have a way of yielding to power.
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Knowledge is power only if you use it.
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I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
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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.
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Power is always a corrupting influence.
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It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.
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Surrender doesn't obstruct power; it enhances it.
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It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
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I know it's a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.
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Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.
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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.
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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
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The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
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Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.
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If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.
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The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.
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We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.
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Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power
