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    So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed,
    And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
    - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter),

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I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

by Edmund Burke Found in: Power Quotes,
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from read more

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

by Napoleon Bonaparte Found in: Power Quotes,
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Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't

by Oskar Shindler Found in: Power Quotes,
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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control -- these three alone lead to power.

by Alfred Lord Tennyson Found in: Power Quotes,
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed read more

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Found in: Power Quotes,
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We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the read more

We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to hum.

by Lyndon Baines Johnson Found in: Power Quotes,
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?

by Ben Jonson Found in: Power Quotes,
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

by Jimi Hendrix Found in: Peace Quotes, Power Quotes,
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Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann read more

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him!
[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.]

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