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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
C. S. Lewis
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton
Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
Arabic Proverb
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
Gore Vidal
Miss Mary, having been a journalist, had splendid powers of invention. I had never heard her tell a story in the same way twice and always had the feeling she was remolding it for the later editions.
Ernest Hemingway
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Francis Bacon
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
Alexis de Tocqueville
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I am not one of those who neglect the reigning power to bow to the rising sun
Jane Austen
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn
