“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”
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“Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.”
“The greatest power is often simple patience.”
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
“They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead.”
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.”
“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?”
“The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.”
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.”
“I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.”
“When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.”
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
“Politics is not about power.”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“Character is power.”
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
“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.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”
“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”