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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Author:
Source: None
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Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough,
I can single handed move the world.
Author:
Source: None
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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.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Balder Dead--The Funeral
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He hath no power that hath not power to use.
Author: Philip James Bailey
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.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Chances (act II, sc. 2, song)
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Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
Author: Benazir Bhutto
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.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XIII, v. 1)
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The balance of power.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Speech
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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: William Ellery Channing
Source: The Present Age--An Address
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Iron hand in a velvet glove.
Author: William Ellery Channing
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.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Sertorius (IV, 2)
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
- Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),
Author: Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter)
Source: Songs--The Sea in Calm (l. 13)
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For that can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
Author: John Dryden
Source: Medal (l. 235)
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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 3, 336)
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Power is neither male nor female.
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 3, 336)
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Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),
Author: Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt)
Source: Sonnet--On a Lock of Milton's Hair
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My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in
whatever hands it is placed.
Author: Sir William Jones
Source: in a letter to Lord Althorpe
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Sejanus (act I)
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There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is
praised as equal to the gods.
[Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se
Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (IV, 70)
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Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power.
[Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam
Posse volunt.]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (X, 96)
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Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 816)
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
Author: John Milton
Source: Comus (l. 816)
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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (III, 4, 79)
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Refuse to wave the flag
Refuse to move the missiles from the warehouse
to the dock.
Author: Arundhati Roy
Source: None
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God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the tooth
of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.
Author: Sylovester Stallone
Source: None
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This administration has broken faith with the people of America.
They have squandered the immense good will extended by other
nations.
Author: Senator Edward M Kennedy
Source: None
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".
Author: Mao Tse-tung
Source: None
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We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Source: None
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There is no knowledge that is not power.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Author: Jean Rostand
Source: None
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Source: None
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We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Source: None
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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.
Author: Max Lerner
Source: None
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Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Author: James Madison
Source: None
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The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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Power has no limits.
Author: Tiberius Caesar
Source: None
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Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Author: Hans J. Morgenthau
Source: None
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To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
Author: Tiberius Caesar
Source: None
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