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Edward Abbey

hough men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

Anon.

Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Sir Winston Churchill

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. ??? We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hithe

Edmund Burke

Remark to James Boswell when Boswell visited the Boulton-Watt factory.

Matthew Boulton

We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power.

A Bartlett Giamatti

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

David Brin

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Brigham Young

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

John F. Kennedy

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

Unknown

Fear is nothing except a drain of energy and Not a power unto itself. Trust in yourself, For therein lies the true power.

Peter McWilliams

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Margaret Mead

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

Eric Sevareid

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

Katharine Graham

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Lyman Bryson

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

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.

Ayn Rand

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

William Proxmire

Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

David McCord

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power.

George W. Bush

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ??“ preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

Bryce Courtenay

The power of one is above all things The power to believe in yourself Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.

Chinese Proverb

Use power to curb power.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore Harold White

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

Eliza Mother Stewart

No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king

Harry S Truman

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Robert F. Kennedy

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

William Gladstone

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Scarface

Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

James F. Byrnes

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

John Ernst Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

George E. Woodberry

I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children???s power of ima

Charles Gordon

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Lord Acton

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Michael Crichton

We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.

J. Michael Straczynski

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

D. H. Lawrence

We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Mark McGee

What should we emphasize in our teaching We learn much from Paul's letters to Timothy and Titus. Paul mentored each and sent them out to the churches to encourage and instruct God's Children of Grace. Notice how often Paul uses the words 'command,' 'warn,' and 'remind' in his letters to Timothy and Titus. God wants us to be loving and gentle in the way we teach His children, but He also wants us to be strong, precise and decisive in what we declare. We are not 'asking' Christians to obey God's Word. We are 'telling' them what God commands. We have no special power in ourselves, but when we preach God's Word we have the 'Power' of God behind us Our preaching and teaching should be in the 'Power and Strength' of God. He gave us the responsibility and authority to declare His Word. We do it humbly, but we do it.

Ray Dickinson

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power.

Unknown

History has proven, God has never given anyone a dream Without also including the power to achieve that dream It is up to us to claim the power and go after that dream, Or just claim , it was only a dream.

Aristotle

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Laurence J. Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.

Angel Blessing

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Jon Wynne Tyson

The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

Anon.

Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

Francis Bacon

For knowledge itself is power.

Robert Burns

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it???s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No o

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation???s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused ?preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat, though.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.)

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly

Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Absolute power is the power to destroy.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Liberal - a power worshiper without power.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting ev

There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat"

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

"No, you fool! I mean power! Ultimate power!" -- Evil Gypsy

"The power to tax is the power to destroy" - Chief Justice T. Marshall

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.

"A perpetual desire for power after power." - Hobbes

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

"I don't have power - I _am_ power." - Firestorm

"The only power worth having is power taken by force." -- The Get

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

"Engineering, maintain full power. Full power!" Spock