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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON POWER 3
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
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
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
He is the most powerful who has himself in his power.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are our gardeners.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822, British poet)
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991, Polish-born American journalist, writer)
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845, British writer, clergyman)
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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-, Russian novelist)
Will and intellect are one and the same.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch philosopher and theologian)
Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936, American journalist)
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
Gloria Steinem (1934-, American feminist writer, editor)
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-, British Prime Minister (1979-90))
Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American lawyer, politician)
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 24:5
The Lord gave and the Lord shall take away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The Lord gave and the Lord shall take away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Job 1:21
What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 16:26
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 3:27
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965, German protestant theologian, philosopher)
By common consent of all the nations and all ages, the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
Author Unknown
By time and council do the best we can. The event is never in the power of man.
Author Unknown
He has the power whom the majority believe in.
Author Unknown
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Author Unknown
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Author Unknown
The greatest monument of a man is not a pyramid, but a record of service built upon a foundation of solid virtues: honesty, purpose, application, study, work, and kindliness.
Author Unknown
The one who wills is the one who can.
Author Unknown
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.
Author Unknown
Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Author Unknown
When the will is ready the feet are light.
Author Unknown
Who wills the end, wills the means.
Author Unknown
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
Raoul Vaneigem (1934-, Belgian situationist philosopher)
Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Sir Aubrey De Vere
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
Stephen Vizinczey (1933-, Hungarian novelist, critic)
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797, British author)
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.
Jon Wynne-Tyson (1924-, British author)
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Theodore White
What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
Willingness is essential in any initiation or in making an dream come true. "I can t" often means "I won t." You can change "I won t" to "I will" with willpower.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924, American President (28th))
I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
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