Source: Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American
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Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
Source: Existential Psychotherapy
“The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.”
“European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”
Source: Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation
“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
Source: Social Justice and the City
“Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Source: Views of society and manners in America: in a series of letters from that country to a friend in England, during the years 1818, 1819, and 1820
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
Source: Poems of King Alfred
“Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated
“To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]”
“Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete
“Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.”
Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
“One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing is more stylish than power.”
Source: Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s
“Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]”
“How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.”
“There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.”