Power Quote link. Other quotes by Harry Shearer. "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" Quote link. Other quotes about: patience god time beauty Other quotes by Real Live Preacher. "The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this." Quote link. Other quotes by Stuart Stevens. "Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system." Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think good Other quotes by Ronnie Shakes. "I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do" Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Cornelius Tacitus. "There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive." Quote link. Other quotes about: world men good mind ideas fact Other quotes by J. Arthur Thomson. "The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will." Quote link. Other quotes by Francis Thompson. "In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it." Quote link. Other quotes about: god something think little success discover Other quotes by Tina Turner. "The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered." Quote link. Other quotes about: life light grow Other quotes by Harry Emerson Fosdick. "No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." Quote link. Other quotes about: society rich Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson. 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Quote link. Other quotes about: god friend man making friends Other quotes by Thomas Hughes. "Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." Quote link. Other quotes by Julie Arabi. "Courage consists of the power of self-recovery." Quote link. Other quotes about: day society fact Other quotes by Henrik Ibsen. "What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less." Quote link. Other quotes about: people nature sin Other quotes by Henrik Ibsen. "Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat." Quote link. Other quotes about: never Other quotes by Henrik Ibsen. "The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish." Quote link. Other quotes about: speech freedom Other quotes by Yoshimi Ishikawa. "Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong Other quotes by Clive James. "It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are." Quote link. Other quotes about: world people worse change Other quotes by Clive James. "Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it." Quote link. Other quotes by Susan Johnson. "Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason children child Other quotes by Juvenal. "Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think value lies Other quotes by Jon Kabit-Zinn. "Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality." Quote link. Other quotes about: talk money people Other quotes by Rosabeth Moss Kanter. "It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly." Quote link. Other quotes about: talk time people government change Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev. "Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time." Quote link. Other quotes about: talk time people change Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev. "I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time." Quote link. Other quotes about: person Other quotes by J. Martin Kohe. "The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose." Quote link. Other quotes about: never wish young Other quotes by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard. "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility" Quote link. Other quotes about: life person Other quotes by T. Starr King. "The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." Quote link. Other quotes about: man house perfect Other quotes by Charles Krauthammer. "Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." Quote link. Other quotes about: class hate war Other quotes by Jiddu Krishnamurti. "Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." Quote link. Other quotes by John Lehman. "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." Quote link. Other quotes about: man wisdom law Other quotes by Christine Lane. "Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe." Quote link. Other quotes about: man wisdom law country Other quotes by Primo Levi. "A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful." Quote link. Other quotes by Raymond Lindquist. "Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance people government Other quotes by James Madison. "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people freedom Other quotes by James Madison. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." Quote link. Other quotes by Lord Macaulay. "The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it." Quote link. Other quotes by Shirley MacLaine. "Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power." Quote link. Other quotes about: prison nothing Other quotes by Andre Malraux. "The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." Quote link. Other quotes about: earth live life sun living Other quotes by Katherine Mansfield. "By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun." Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by General George Catlett Marshall. "Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength respect woman mind look Other quotes by Giuseppe Mazzini. "Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none." Quote link. Other quotes by Michael McClary. "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." Quote link. Other quotes by Peter McWilliams. "Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power." Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick. "Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it." Quote link. Other quotes by David McCord. "I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power." Quote link. Other quotes about: christ strength god men children child words teach Other quotes by Mark McGee. "What should we emphasize in our teaching We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it." Quote link. Other quotes about: happy Other quotes by Herbert Marshall McLuhan. "Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be." Quote link. Other quotes about: first life love fear Other quotes by Mary Manin Morrissey. "Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love." Quote link. Other quotes about: man value Other quotes by Lewis Mumford. "Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline." Quote link. Other quotes about: government good Other quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan. "Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good." Quote link. Other quotes about: world love rule Other quotes by John Henry Newman. "In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing." Quote link. Other quotes by Flower A. Newhouse. "Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength hard Other quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance." Quote link. Other quotes about: man life Other quotes by Earl Nightingale. "The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers." Quote link. Other quotes about: find friend live pain person war honest Other quotes by Henri Nouwen. "When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares." Quote link. Other quotes by Karen Nussbaum. "There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power." Quote link. Other quotes about: good evil Other quotes by Origen. "The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Saskya Pandita. "Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man." Quote link. Other quotes by Chinese Proverb. "Use power to curb power." Quote link. Other quotes by Pope Gregory The Great. "There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim." Quote link. Other quotes about: money law rule Other quotes by Gaius Petronius. "What power has law where only money rules." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason wisdom past future change mind look Other quotes by Mary Pickford. "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Pittacus. "The measure of a man is what he does with power." Quote link. Other quotes by William Plomer. "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected." Quote link. Other quotes about: human history world man life mankind Other quotes by Sir Karl Popper. "There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." Quote link. Other quotes about: work believe never good religion rest mind Other quotes by Beatrix Potter. "All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest." Quote link. Other quotes about: life love Other quotes by Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer. "God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen." Quote link. Other quotes about: something fear Other quotes by Moorish Proverb. "He who fears something gives it power over him." Quote link. Other quotes by Tuscarora Proverb. "Man has responsibility, not power." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Muammar Qaddafi. "The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan)" Quote link. Other quotes about: death people food Other quotes by Dixie Lee Ray. "A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year." Quote link. Other quotes by Robert D. Richardson. "Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence." Quote link. Other quotes about: never mind Other quotes by Anthony Robbins. "Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary." Quote link. Other quotes about: america money people men society Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society." Quote link. Other quotes about: life good Other quotes by James Harvey Robinson. "American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism." Quote link. Other quotes by Theodore Isaac Rubin. "Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all." Quote link. Other quotes about: human people man children love change child Other quotes by Bayard Rustin. "When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too." Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by John Ruskin. "No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength nothing Other quotes by Saint Francis de Sales. "Nothing is so powerful as gentleness nothing is so gentle as true strength." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength law look Other quotes by Saville. "Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments." Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Eric Sevareid. "Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor." Quote link. Other quotes about: hope mother success Other quotes by Samuel Smiles. "Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." Quote link. Other quotes about: hope need Other quotes by Liz Smith. "To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective." Quote link. Other quotes about: people man Other quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. "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." Quote link. Other quotes about: earth world men influence Other quotes by Eliza Mother Stewart. "No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king" Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Meryl Streep. "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy." Quote link. Other quotes about: world men man nature evil soul Other quotes by Adlai Ewing Stevenson. "Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls." Quote link. Other quotes by Samuel Smiles. "Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action." Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom government need teach Other quotes by J. Michael Straczynski. "No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." Quote link. Other quotes about: mental bad time men peace Other quotes by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. "In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness." Quote link. Other quotes about: never people man sun today dead summer snow country Other quotes by Tecumseh. "Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER." Quote link. Other quotes about: fear Other quotes by John Ernst Steinbeck. "Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power." Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing life understand good fear Other quotes by Dorothy Thompson. "Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow." Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher. "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." Quote link. Other quotes about: patience time war Other quotes by Leo Tolstoy. "The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." Quote link. Other quotes about: human never people Other quotes by Thucyclides. "Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation." Quote link. Other quotes about: men man rest Other quotes by Thucyclides. "Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most." Quote link. Other quotes about: lost nothing past Other quotes by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville. "Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong people Other quotes by Jon Wynne Tyson. "The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people." Quote link. Other quotes about: talk god Other quotes by Brenda Ueland. "Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers." Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Trine. "Do you want to be a power in the world Then be yourself." Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Troward. "Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form." Quote link. Other quotes about: work hard Other quotes by Jeremy Taylor. "Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power." Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing lies Other quotes by Unknown. "Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power." Quote link. Other quotes about: believe people man creative fear belief Other quotes by Unknown. "What a pity that so many people rather believe their doubts And doubt their beliefs... Why don't we just decide to have no doubts, And believe your beliefs Fear and worry is just the mis-use of the creative powers We originally got to dream." Quote link. Other quotes about: god never Other quotes by Unknown. "History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim , it was only a dream." Quote link. Other quotes about: need Other quotes by Unknown. "All power corrupts, but we need the electricity." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength man Other quotes by W. T. Ussery. "Numbers are essential, but not absolutely essential to strength. For many churches are numerically strong but lamentably weak spiritually. Numbers, then, are no display of spiritual power or strength." Quote link. Other quotes about: man good Other quotes by Swami Vivekananda. "Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good." Quote link. Other quotes about: god nature teach Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. "If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." Quote link. Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire. "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." Quote link. Other quotes about: work country Other quotes by Paul Weyrich. "We are different from previous generations of conservatives. We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country." Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Edwin Percy Whipple. "The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed." Quote link. Other quotes about: america money death life hate war love sin Other quotes by Edmund White. "The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War." Quote link. Other quotes about: human live life Other quotes by H. G. Wells. "I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations." Quote link. Other quotes about: people man Other quotes by Theodore Harold White. "Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership." Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Elie Wiesel. "Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason wisdom past future change mind look Other quotes by Hugh White. "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by John Whitehead. "The people of the South have rejected the constitutional amendment, and therefore we will march upon them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet, and establish military power over them until they do adopt it." Quote link. Other quotes about: small god world nothing people man glory light fear deep child born Other quotes by Marianne Williamson. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Quote link. Other quotes about: history never government Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson. "Liberty has never come from the government. 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"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." Quote link. Other quotes about: nature change law Other quotes by Edmund Burke. "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason fear mind Other quotes by Edmund Burke. "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." Quote link. Other quotes about: wise mind Other quotes by Edmund Burke. 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"Uncle Ben With great power, comes great responsibility." Quote link. Other quotes about: belief grow young Other quotes by W. Somerset Maugham. "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." Quote link. Other quotes about: duty right people government Other quotes by George Washington. "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government." Quote link. Other quotes about: technology science ignorance understand Other quotes by Carl Sagan. "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces." Quote link. Other quotes about: live man Other quotes by Seneca. "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." Quote link. Other quotes by Ovid. "Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power." Quote link. Other quotes by Seneca. "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." Quote link. Other quotes about: hope work something world good success deep mind Other quotes by Vaclav Havel. "Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by William Hazlitt. "The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves." Quote link. Other quotes about: god person Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." Quote link. Other quotes about: success wisdom Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think change Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." Quote link. Other quotes about: duty purpose Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented." Quote link. Other quotes about: human man mankind society Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual." Quote link. Other quotes about: brother small live world never people government rest forget country look Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives." Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason god religion deep mind Other quotes by Albert Einstein. "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God." Quote link. Other quotes about: lies Other quotes by Charles Dudley Warner. "Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being." Quote link. Other quotes by Miguel de Cervantes. "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." Quote link. Other quotes by Emerich Edward Dalbert. "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Quote link. Other quotes about: change Other quotes by Douglas Noel Adams. "When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Quote link. Other quotes about: hard Other quotes by Kareem Abdul-Jabar. "Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken." Quote link. Other quotes about: people life need society Other quotes by Geoffrey F. Albert. "When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life." Quote link. Other quotes about: men man government living Other quotes by John Adams. "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Henry Adams. "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." Quote link. Other quotes about: lost friend Other quotes by Henry Adams. "A friend in power is a friend lost." Quote link. Other quotes about: day forget ideas Other quotes by William Adams. "Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity." Quote link. Other quotes about: earth lost friend Other quotes by William Adams. "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." Quote link. Other quotes about: life discover Other quotes by Akhenaton. "Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways." Quote link. Other quotes about: moon Other quotes by Alcaeus. "Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Eric Ambler. "The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak." Quote link. Other quotes about: man life lies Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. "Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man." Quote link. Other quotes about: pain Other quotes by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." Quote link. Other quotes by Hannah Arendt. "Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up." Quote link. Other quotes about: think evil Other quotes by Heini Arnold. "As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever." Quote link. Other quotes about: think man woman born Other quotes by Margaret Atwood. "We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly." Quote link. Other quotes about: books art man book father nature value Other quotes by Pietro Aretino. "Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art." Quote link. Other quotes by Louis. "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." Quote link. Other quotes by Paul Aubuchon. "Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination." Quote link. Other quotes about: find something think nature past rest service forget Other quotes by Jane Austen. "If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out." Quote link. Other quotes by Jane Austen. "In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes." Quote link. Other quotes about: life mind Other quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius. "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life." Quote link. Other quotes about: pain Other quotes by Marcus Aelius Aurelius. "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." Quote link. Other quotes about: little change naked Other quotes by James Arthur Baldwin. "Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes." Quote link. Other quotes about: success wisdom Other quotes by George Baker. "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." Quote link. Other quotes about: science mental reason history men man good devil influence Other quotes by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin. "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Alexander Graham Bell. "What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it." Quote link. Other quotes about: right person Other quotes by Erastus Flavel Beadle. "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person." Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom Other quotes by Stephen Vincent Benet. "We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom." Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Sarah Bernhardt. "All power in human hands is liable to be abused." Quote link. Other quotes by Mary Bertone. "The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power." Quote link. Other quotes about: god past Other quotes by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce. "This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past." Quote link. Other quotes about: money man look Other quotes by Victoria Billings. "Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche." Quote link. Other quotes about: strength earth world understand walk Other quotes by Black Elk. "Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." Quote link. Other quotes by Angel Blessing. "There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power." Quote link. Other quotes by Blessing Irish. "Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined." Quote link. Other quotes about: time future Other quotes by Jim. "Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future." Quote link. Other quotes by Ludwig Boerne. "The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are." Quote link. Other quotes by Nicolas Boileau. "If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" Quote link. Other quotes about: think people man Other quotes by Edward De Bono. "Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven." Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right honest courage rich Other quotes by David L Boren. "What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction." Quote link. Other quotes about: history never government Other quotes by Nadia Boulanger. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." Quote link. Other quotes about: human man good value look Other quotes by Carol Botwin. "Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks." Quote link. Other quotes about: reason wisdom past future change mind look Other quotes by Phyllis Bottome. "When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Quote link. Other quotes about: people man hard family Other quotes by Anthony Brandt. "The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family We remain connected, even against our wills." Quote link. 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