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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, War, Community

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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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

  Running, Men, Should Have

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

  Seneca the Younger

  Judgment, Command, Supreme

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• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Duration, Injustice

  "Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Understanding, Products

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• I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

  Edmund Burke

  Sublime, Modification, Knows

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.62

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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

  Way, Pope, Despise

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.61, Vintage

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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

  Choices, Decision, Overcoming

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Men, Growth, Identity

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• I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

  Roland Barthes

  Guilt, Blame, Discourse

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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

  Character, Men, Sacred

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• Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Natural, Authority, Inclination

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• If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.

  William Hazlitt

  Delicacy, Persons, Ifs

  William Hazlitt, Edward George Earle Lytten Butwer-Lytton Lyton (1st baron), Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholors. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.258

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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

  Strong, Water, Way

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• Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Names, Pieces, Half

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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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• Wherever there is power there is age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.317, Рипол Классик

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• Our power is not so much in us as through us.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”

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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

  Gun, Shadow, Liberty

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

  Max Lerner

  Culture, Brutal, Live By

  Max Lerner (1939). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”, p.223, Transaction Publishers

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• Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Commitment, Tasks

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.164, Beacon Press

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• In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Strength, Confidence, Strong

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

  Philip Massinger

  Success, War, Positivity

  1623 The Bondman, act1, sc.3.

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• Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Thankful, Encouragement, Good And Evil

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• Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Strong, Achievement

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.199, Beacon Press

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