Power Quotes - Page 26

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Land, Self Improvement, Business Success

  Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument, www.dartmouth.edu. June 17, 1825.

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• The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspiration, Mediocrity, World

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Evil, Reason

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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• The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Names, Government, Instinct

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

  Henry Miller

  Evil, Analysis, Literature

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Friendship, Appreciate, Trying

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Lying, Profound

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• Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

  Cesare Pavese

  Free Will, Single Relationship, Disposition

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Ambition, Men

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.849

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Truth, Shock, Appeals

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  Jean Rostand

  Vocation, Suspicious

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Machines, Slavery

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions"

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

  Friedrich Schiller

  Fighting, Crowns, Gains

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Birthday, Idols, Age

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Errors, Discovery

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

  Gloria Steinem

  Workout, Women, Thinking

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• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wisdom, Passion, Heart

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• It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Unusual, Young, Young Women

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• So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

  Marlo Thomas

  Black And White, Men, Boss

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• The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Presses

  Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.239

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• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Anthony Trollope

  Looks, Crowds, Digestion

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Rachel Ray: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.570, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

  Harry S. Truman

  Strength, Peace, Powerful

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• Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

  Unknown

  Hate, Sisterhood, Men

  "Who Won’t Be Voting for Trump" by Eliot Weinberger, London Review of Books, Volume 38, No.20, pp. 3-6, www.lrb.co.uk. October 20, 2016.

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• 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

  Mean, Secret, Wicked

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• But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

  Tina Turner

  Believe, Use, Levels

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