Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 641 till 660 of 983.

  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Billy Graham The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Aldous Huxley The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edmund Burke The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Seneca The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Shapiro The greatest obstacle to the welfare state is not greed but private charity that makes the welfare state irrelevant; the greatest obstacle to re-education of children in the name of the collective is allegiance to a higher power. More than that, the greatest obstacle to the state as god is an actual God above the state.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • J. Martin Kohe The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • William Booth The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Plato The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Wallace Stevens The imagination is man's power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • John Ruskin The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Hazlitt The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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  • Bruce Lee The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Noam Chomsky The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John D. Mcdonald The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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