All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank ChodorovIn the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander HamiltonThe spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
Matt BluntI feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me.
Rainer Maria RilkePower is the ultimate aphrodisiac
Henry KissingerPower is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean BaudrillardA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
GalbraithI thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
Reinhold NiebuhrPower is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller When 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 TeresaThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin WilsonBlack is a colour of power and strength.
Hayden FryHow 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 MelvilleConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton FriedmanLiberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow WilsonGod... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn RandAt the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis BehanAdvertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase.
Eric ClarkDuring the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas HobbesIf absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Harry ShearerI would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
PlutarchTruth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner TruthA bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John GalbraithNot even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Tom WolfeAs the infection of sin spreadeth itself throughout the whole soul, and all the faculties and powers thereof, so doth the work of the Spirit of God.
George GillespieMode of providing steam power to locomotives.
John EricssonNo 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 RiversPatience and Gentleness is Power
Leigh HuntThe more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain
Leigh HuntTiffany is self-absorbed, but she's also very smart. She always finds the opportunity to get what she wants. She also likes to use her sex appeal as power over her peers
Nikki CoxTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellLove is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules MicheletThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensPurity is the power to contemplate defilement.
Simone WeilLiberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John AdamsThe music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Gilbert ParkerAnyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.
Sir Oswald MosleyWoman, a pleasing but a short-lived flower,
Too soft for business and too weak for power:
A wife in bondage, or neglected maid:
Despised, if ugly: if she's fair, betrayed. (An Essay on Woman)
Mary LeaporExtreme avarice is nearly always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future
Duc De La RochefoucauldI put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas HobbesThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
Sarah CaldwellMike Ruddock has empowered the players, which is a big step
Ieuan EvansProperly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra PoundIt is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected.
Thomas JeffersonHe was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them
Charles KingsleyExtremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.
King Abdullah IIWhere love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other (Gesammelte Werke)
Carl Gustav JungIf absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? [Paraphrasing Lord Acton, presumably]
George DeaconWhen it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael EndeAs a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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