Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 541 till 560 of 983.

  • Honoré de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Huey Newton Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Power is the by-product of understanding.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Henry Kissinger Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.
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  • Jean Genet Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Malcolm X Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Samuel Huntington Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
    Source: American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Lord Acton Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Louise Erdrich Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
    Source: Liefdesmedicijn (2010)
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Harold Macmillan Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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