power Quotes

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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“To me, a great ineptitude exists on the part of those who would have it that God made the universe more in proportion to the small capacity of their reason than to His immense, His infinite, power.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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“I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.”

― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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“distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“size is no guarantee of power”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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