P Quotes
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“Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.”
“Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”
“Power is not found in muscles; power is found in the mind.”
“Power is not given to you. You have to take it.”
“Power is not happiness.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness
“Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.”
“Power is not just for TV sets and charging mobile phones. This electricity is critical to the industrial development of this area. If there is electricity, small scale industry will grow.”
“Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.”
“Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.”
Source: The Power Elite
“Power is not pleasure, power is pain.”
“Power is not powerful without wisdom.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“Power is not sized. Often the smallest force destroys a large size.”
“Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.”
Source: the new industrial state
“Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.”
“Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.”
“Power is not the white man’s birthright; it will not be legislated for us and delivered in neat government packages. It is a social force any group can utilize by accumulating its elements in a planned, deliberate campaign to organize it under its own control.”
Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
“Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!”
“Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.”
“Power is nothing without a rock solid core. Pilates is the key to activating it...guys don't be fooled just 'cause women do it. It's no joke. Try it and you'll find out real quick.”
“power is obtainable respect is earned loyalty is priceless and revenge is sweet these are the lessons we learn in life”
“Power is of an encroaching nature.”
Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.”
Source: Force and Freedom: Reflections on History
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”
Source: Collected Works
“Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.”
Source: Collected Works
“Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.”
“Power is only respected if it is not used, otherwise it is simply fear.”
“Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.”
“Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!”
Source: Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections
“Power is paradoxical.”
“Power is perception, and she was learning to bend perception to her will.”
Source: The Last Carolingian: Phoenix of Francia: A Modern Scholar's Fight for Survival and a Kingdom
“Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.”
“Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another.”
Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
“Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.”
“Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.”
“Power is similar to intelligence, it cannot be measured. In this case, we can only judge by the results.”
“Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.”
“Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.”
“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
“Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.”
Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn
“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”
Source: Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories
“Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.”
“Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.”
“Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.”
“Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.”
“Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.”