Quotes with power-worship

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  • Thomas Jefferson I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
    Ann Druyan (2011) 354
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Buddha If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Dickens In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
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    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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  • Samuel Johnson Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing external to you has any power over you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Saul Alinsky Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Arsene Wenger Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • E. Joseph Cossman The greatest power is often simple patience.
    E. Joseph Cossman
    American author
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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