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Peace is the most powerful weapon of mankind. It takes more courage to take a blow than give one. It takes more courage to try and talk things through than to start a war.
Mahatma Gandhi

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac
Henry Kissinger

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace Stevens

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I do like to empower women to be comfortable with their bodies, their sexuality.
Christina Aguilera

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
Thomas Hobbes

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.
George Samuel Clason

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Emily Carr

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy Graham

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat
Hermann Goering

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve
Napoleon Hill

We 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 Frost

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Brendan Francis Behan

The players who were great in their prime, well, they're still great. They might have lost a little of the power and speed, but their ball striking and technique is as good as ever.
Jeremy Bates

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
W Clement Stone

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean Paul Richter

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?
Joseph Stalin

You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are. [on flying]
Duane G Carey

I perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton

The 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 Hastings

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Tacitus

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diplomacy 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 Tuchman

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
Jerry Cantrell

We cannot suppose that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
Thomas Clarkson

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
Aldous Huxley

When 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 Ende

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
Jon Lee Anderson

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Jean Anouilh

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence
James Monroe

Do I use my powers for evil? Well of course!
Paul McKenna

Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Sojourner Truth

The hero of my tale - whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful - is Truth (Sevastopol in May)
Leo Tolstoy

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman

Our appearance is a powerful communication tool, sending messages to every sighted person. Everyone is highly influenced by the visual impression of a person they are meeting for the first time
Catherine Bell

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Charles Gordon

During 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 Hobbes

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Charles E Hughes

I admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.
Michael Ovitz

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin Land

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

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
Jules Michelet

In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete. (Isaac Casaubon)
Mark Pattinson

But he is a great manager, he is clever and used his power and his prestige. The referee should not allow it. I have a lot of respect for Ferguson. I call him boss because he is the manager's boss. Maybe when I become 60, the kids will call me the same.
Jose Mourinho



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