Quotes with power-lust

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  • Flower A. Newhouse Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
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  • Rita Mae Brown Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Roland Barthes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Bill Simmons Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Warren Bennis Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
    Warren Bennis
    American scholar, organizational consultant and author (1925 - 2014)
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  • Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Henry George Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Maria Weston Chapman Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James Madison Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Voltaire Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Philip Roth Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love delayed is lust augmented.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Ericka Huggins Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.
    Ericka Huggins
    American activist (1951 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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