The future starts today, not tomorrow.
John Paul II
1. "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman
Other categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy
2. "Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."
Korean proverb
3. "The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."
Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"
Other categories: Human
4. "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."
Alvin Toffler, "The Democratic Difference"
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
5. "Power tires only those who do not have it."
Giulio Andreotti
6. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
Saul Alinsky
7. "Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."
Thrasymachus
Other categories: Justice
8. "Power acquired by violence is only an usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey."
Denis Diderot, "Encyclopedia"
9. "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance."
Hannah Arendt, "On Violence"
10. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, 1st Baron Acton
Other categories: Authority, Government
11. "Whoever is new to power is always harsh."
Aeschylus, "Prometheus Bound"
Other categories: Authority, Government
12. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Other categories: Authority, Government -:- Time and Passing
13. "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
Other categories: Authority, Government
14. "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations."
Walter Bagehot, "The English Constitution"
Other categories: Reality and Imagination
15. "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
Aldous Huxley
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
16. "Liberal — a power worshipper without power."
George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
17. "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O`Rourke, "Parliament of Whores"
Other categories: Authority, Government
18. "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."
Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"
Other categories: Authority, Government
19. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Lao-tse
Other categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Love
20. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
Colin Powell
Other categories: Optimism and Hope
21. "Fear is conquerable. Doubt is defeatable. Self worth is buildable."
Terri McPherson
Other categories: Bravery and Fear
22. "In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."
Aesop
23. "Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."
Brian Tracy
Other categories: Talent and Genius
24. "Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power."
Gerry Spence
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
25. "You are never strong enough that you don't need help."
Cesar Chavez
26. "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power."
Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars"
Other categories: Authority, Government
27. "Cancer is so limited, It cannot corrode faith, It cannot shatter hope, It cannot kill friendships, It cannot cripple love, It cannot destroy peace, It cannot silence courage, It cannot suppress memories, It cannot conquer the spirit."
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Other categories: Health and Alcohol
28. "A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability."
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Other categories: Woman and Man
29. "Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."
Aleister Crowley
Other categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
30. "The weakness of your opposition is your strength."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
31. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
Other categories: Love -:- Peace and War
32. "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
Eric Hoffer
Other categories: Manners and Ethics
33. "Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
Eric Hoffer
Other categories: Truth and Falsity
34. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden
Other categories: Work and Laziness
35. "The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."
Georges Bidault
Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes
36. "Freedom is participation in power."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Other categories: Freedom and Servitude
37. "The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles flames; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one."
François de La Rochefoucauld
Other categories: Love
38. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
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Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
39. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"
Other categories: Justice -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
40. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Mao Zedong
Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy
41. "The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends."
Mario Puzo, "The Godfather: Part III"
Other categories: Richness and Money
42. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Winston Churchill
Other categories: Authority, Government
43. "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."
Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means"
Other categories: Authority, Government
44. "Power is the great aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger
45. "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life"
46. "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
Clarence Darrow
Other categories: Wit and Humor
47. "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill
48. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
Albert Einstein
49. "A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
50. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
Mahatma Gandhi
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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