Quotes with power-lust

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  • Jacob Bronowski No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Pearl S. Buck None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Charles Dickens Not in our heads but in our hearts lies the power, that leads us to great deeds.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Betty Ford Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
    Source: Americas most influential first ladies
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Schwartz Not only don't diets work, they're actually designed to fail. It's not you or your lack of will power that's the problem. It's that diets by their very nature simply don't work.
    Bob Schwartz
     
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  • Sholem Asch Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Nido Qubein Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
    Nido Qubein
    American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Francis Bacon Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anthony Robbins Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Rebecca West Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Walt Whitman O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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