Quotes with power-lust

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  • Aristotle The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Robert Anthony When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Carolina Herrera You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Haythum R. Khalid All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Carl Rowan (President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as commander-in-chief, to use military forces to keep himself in power.
    October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Wolfe A cult is a religion with no political power.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Jean Rostand A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams A friend in power is a friend lost.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Ralph Lauren A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
    Ralph Lauren
    American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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  • Phillips Brooks A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Gerald Stanley Lee A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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