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«But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.»
«Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.»
«Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.»
«Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.»
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy,
Power
| Keywords:
asking, persists, powers, The Powers That Be
«Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.»
Author: Thomas Troward
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
as yet, desired, expectancy, flow, mold, plastic, receptive, substance, undifferentiated
«Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Power,
Society
| Keywords:
corrupts, increases, moral character
«Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose»
«Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
concentration, concentration of power, cradled, established church, nursed, political liberty, political machine, preserved
«Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused»
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