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“An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”

Order Politics Leadership Power Misunderstood

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.”

World Trying Believe Done Desire Order Change Power Impossible Succeed Thirds Fortune Conquer Our Thoughts Maxims

Author:Rene Descartes

“the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to survive, women have had to know men - yet the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.”

Knows Men Order Powerful Power Groups Mystery Survival Regard Vices Discrimination Inequality Know Me Vice Versa

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.”

Humans Order Power Fire Lust Naked Appetite

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.”

People Needs Use Order Powerful Power Effects Taste Mere Invisible Most Powerful Volume Good Taste Seducing Clumsy Impeccable True Power Coerce Moguls Blowhards

Author:Lynda Obst

“The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.”

Men Order Differences Power Issues Men And Women Addresses Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Kathleen Brown

“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”

Ifs Use Hands Suffering Order Dies Justice Power Sun East Firm Diminish Astonishing Sun Set

Author:Albert Camus

“Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.”

Spiritual Faith Order Power Depends Authority Unity Dimensions Imperatives Decree Spiritual Dimensions

Book:In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Action Order Nature Accepting Worry Power Doors Demand Concern Determine Inferiors Outcast Back Doors

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.”

Source: The Magus

“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”

People Giving Kind Government Order Freedom Power Society Huge Institutions Ridiculous Corporations Totalitarianism Linguistics Stalinism Political Ideology

Book:How the World Works

Source: How the World Works

“The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.”

Country Hands Government Law Political Order Politics Power Males Spite

Author:Victoria Woodhull

“In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.”

Men Order Power Lust For Power

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.”

Source: Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).

“When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.”

“Sisters, you are each like the lioness at the gate. This means that there has to be some prioritizing. I was taught years ago that when our priorities are out of order, we lose power. If we need power and influence to carry out our mission, then our priorities have to be straight.”

Ifs Needs Years Mean Order Loses Power Influence Taught Years Ago Missions Priorities Gates Sister Prioritize Mormonism Lioness

Author:Julie B. Beck

“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”

“It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.”

Mind Has Beens Order Mistake Power Highest Mark Lust Charm Great Minds Captivated Lust For Power

Book: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

“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”

Order Attention Power Virtue Humility Intellectual Intellectual Humility

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.”

People Mean Religion Order Watches Power Management Fellows Tyranny Organized

Author:Denis Diderot

“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.”

Men Order Church Existence Power Exercise Authority Ministry

Author:John Wycliffe

“One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.”

Order Results Existence Power Mankind Position Highest Strive Greed Circles Pursuit Arise Proportion Vicious Reckless Neurotic Grim Insatiable Vicious Circles

Author:Konrad Lorenz