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Saturday, 11 October 2008
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"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it." (Byron, Lord - Life and Living)

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with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
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.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledge increases strength. [Proverbs 24:5]
A word after a word after a word is power.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves.
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Calmness is the cradle of power.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
He has the power who the majority believe in.
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none.
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.
I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Iron hand in a velvet glove.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.