“Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.”
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“There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.”
“Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”
“The way to have power is to take it.”
“The law has no power over heroes.”
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”
“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
“Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.”
“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”
“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.”
“The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.”
“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”
“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”