Power is my mistress
Napoleon BonaparteHow often in the halls of legislation does eloquence unmask corruption, expose intrigue, and overthrow tyranny! In the cause of mercy it is omnipotent. It is bold in the consciousness of its superiority, fearless and unyielding in the purity of its motives. All opposition it destroys; all power it defies.
Henry MelvilleGod, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech
QuintilianA city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
Arnold ToynbeeEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson MandelaWhen you look at electrical things you can see that they are made of small and big wires, cheap and expensive all lined up. Until the current runs through them there will be no light. Those wires are you and me and the current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us and produce the light of the world or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread.
Mother TeresaIdealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous HuxleyNo steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Joan RiversThe only power an actor has is the ability to say: 'No'
Lou Diamond PhillipsAn idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.
Richard BachThe writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and power are lost to remembrances
Warren HastingsThere was a power cut and I got very wet and had to roll the jeans right up to my knees to get out of there. There were a couple of tables left inside so we were able to nip in there, but we got served in the dark so I still don't know what I ate!
Ian BellThough they don't want to kill anybody, they like to have the power to do so
JuvenalBeware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee MastersMaking fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
P J O'RourkeA zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel BooneDarren Campbell, a muscular, powerful young man inside him, who's pushing for Athens. And the starter's enjoying giving both of them a long hold.
Stuart StoreyIt is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
Marya MannesCollectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael JefferyThere is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T WashingtonWe hope that through these trade arrangements, through collabouration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
Sellapan RamanathanBlack is a colour of power and strength.
Hayden FryWe will do everything in our power to make certain that this is as painless a process as possible for the benefit of the children [on divorcing Jude Law]
Sadie FrostI'm going to do everything in my power to convince the president that our national security demands at least twelve carriers.
Ander CrenshawBeliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anthony RobbinsThe power of positive thinking (Title of book)
Norman Vincent PealeDiplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara TuchmanNearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham LincolnTo take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone
MetastasioBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent PealeWhen I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business
Pierre OmidyarI've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.
Vanessa RedgraveAll the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
Ronald ReaganNo power of government ought to be employed in the endeavour to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Jeremy BenthamNo power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John JayA mighty power and stronger
Man from his throne has hurled,
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world.
William WallaceI say now and have often said before, Fathers of the Senate, that a well-disposed and helpful prince, to whom you have given such great and unrestrained power, ought to be the servant of the Senate, often of the citizens as a whole, and sometimes even of individuals.
Tiberius CaesarThe possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
James A GarfieldThere are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.
Leo DurocherKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonEquality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
Honore De BalzacThe virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
Brooks AndersonLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseThe only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric HofferPower? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold McMillanThere is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida TarbellHe hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick FaldoDistrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Friedrich NietzscheEcological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.
Ernest BeckerThe silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations
Henry Giles
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