“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
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“What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”
“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.”
“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.”
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.”
“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”
“Everything is generated through your own will power.”
“If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
“I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.”
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.”
“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”