Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus Quotes

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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.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

Winston Churchill Quotes

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

Alice Walker Quotes

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The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are

Ludwig Borne Quotes

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon, Sr. Quotes

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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand Quotes

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.

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Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.

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Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine, For of all powers the mightiest far art thou, Lord over men on earth, and Gods in Heaven; Yet even from thee thyself hath been withheld One thing--to undo what thou thyself hast ruled.

Matthew Arnold Quotes , Source: Balder Dead--The Funeral

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He hath no power that hath not power to use.

Philip James Bailey Quotes , Source: Festus (sc. A Visit)

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Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes , Source: The Chances (act II, sc. 2, song)

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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

Benazir Bhutto Quotes , Source: in a CBS television interview

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Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Bible Quotes , Source: Romans (ch. XIII, v. 1)

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The balance of power.

Edmund Burke Quotes , Source: Speech

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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes , Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 2)

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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

William Ellery Channing Quotes , Source: The Present Age--An Address

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Iron hand in a velvet glove.

William Ellery Channing Quotes , Source: The Present Age--An Address

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes , Source: Lacon (p. 255)

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Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]

Pierre Corneille Quotes , Source: Sertorius (IV, 2)

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