POWER QUOTES VII

quotations about power

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

attributed, The Dance of Life

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Give me power but for a single day, and it is mine forever.

SEMIRAMIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves.... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

SANAYA ROMAN

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation


God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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The steps of power are often steps on sand.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Power deludes the ones who wield it.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Farthest Shore

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Power dies, power goes under and gutters out, ungraspable. It is momentary, quick of flight and liable to deceive. As soon as you rely on the possession it is gone. Forget that it ever existed, and it returns.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Tracks

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Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

EDMUND BURKE

A Vindication of Natural Society

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Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.

MALCOLM X

Malcolm X Speaks

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So long as there is an uneasy class, a class which has not its just power, it will rashly clutch and blindly believe the notion that all men should have the same power.

WALTER BAGEHOT

The English Constitution

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Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

MAHATMA GANDHI

The Indian States' Problem

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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Mr. Leiper, June 12, 1815

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Words frequently surrender power to the opposer.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

JOHN ADAMS

Novanglus Essays, No. 3

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Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

CARL SAGAN

The Demon-Haunted World

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He who looks for great power searches for perils.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

URSULA K. LE GUIN

A Wizard of Earthsea

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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

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