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Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
Proverb
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes
They who have decided to dedicate their lives to spiritual perfection will never be dissatisfied or unhappy, because all that they want is in their power.
Leo Tolstoy
It was his father who had shrunk, who no longer had the power of the giant, of the god, to enfold him and keep him safe.
Orson Scott Card
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Sarah Boseley
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama
Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Margaret J. Wheatley
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou
He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Milton Friedman
