Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 801 till 820 of 983.

  • Bruce Schneier Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Tacitus Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Bryan Adams Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Allen Klein Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Ben Jonson Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
    Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Ayn Rand To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Jane Fonda To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
    Jane Fonda
    American actress, writer, political activist and former fashion model (1937 - )
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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