• The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 16 votes · 161 reads

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• The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 15 reads

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• The property of power is to protect.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 194 reads

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• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 72 reads

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• The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 76 reads

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• The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 127 reads

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• The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 92 reads

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• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 0 reads

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• There is no knowledge that is not power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 117 reads

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• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 113 reads

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 188 reads

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• Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 119 reads

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• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 118 reads

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• To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 122 reads

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• To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 94 reads

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• Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 15 votes · 195 reads

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• Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 9 reads

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• Voice of one, voice of none.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  4.1 · 19 votes · 193 reads

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• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 44 reads

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• Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 7 votes · 137 reads

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• What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 45 reads

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• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 10 votes · 173 reads

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• When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 82 reads

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• Wherever there is power there is age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 94 reads

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• Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 94 reads

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• You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 177 reads

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• You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 186 reads

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• You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 0 reads

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• You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 167 reads

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