“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
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“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.”
“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”
“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.”
“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.”
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.”
“For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.”
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.”
“Calmness is the cradle of power.”
“The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.”
“If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.”
“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.”
“A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.”
“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
“I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.”
“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”
“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.”
“Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”
“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.”
“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”