Famous Quotes: Power

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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.
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Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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