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"Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high – high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it?” growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
Janet Morris
Love, Power, Adherency, theomachy
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"I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?”
Janet Morris
Power, Son of the Storm God, Preternatural power
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"It's too early for my girls.... But for you...of course...whatever you require."
Chris Morris
Business, Prostitution, Power, Respect
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A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Publilius Syrus
Power
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
Power
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
Power
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power
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A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. -- Proverbs 24:5
Power
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Power
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All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
Andrea Dworkin
Power
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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Walter Raleigh
Power
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca the Younger
Power
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Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
Power
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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James Baldwin
Power
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Calmness is the cradle of power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Power
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman
Power
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
Jean Baudrillard
Power
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
Power
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Power
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From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Albert Camus
Power
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
Seneca the Younger
Power
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He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
Thomas Fuller M.D.
Power
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
Laozi
Power
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He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Power
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I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
Roland Barthes
Power
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I 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 Rilke
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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
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
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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
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Edmund Burke
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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
Power
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost
Power
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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Margaret Thatcher
Power
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
Power
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If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Power
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. Eliot
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca the Younger
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon
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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
Gore Vidal
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It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
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Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Laozi
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Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
William Shakespeare
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus
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Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca the Younger
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Sydney Smith
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No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Laozi
Power
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
Buckminster Fuller
Power
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Our power is not so much in us as through us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Personal power is the ability to take action.
Tony Robbins
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem
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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
Eric Hoffer
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Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Orison Swett Marden
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Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Michel Foucault
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honoré de Balzac
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
Jacob Bronowski
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
Jean Genet
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
Olive Schreiner
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George Orwell
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
Harold Macmillan
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
Stephen Vizinczey
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Raoul Vaneigem
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Simone Weil
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Power
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