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1. "Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power."

Gerry Spence

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude


2. "You are never strong enough that you don't need help."

Cesar Chavez


3. "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power."

Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars"

Quotations about: Authority, Government


4. "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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Quotations about: Health and Alcohol


5. "A woman's greatest power is her vulnerability."

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Quotations about: Woman and Man


6. "Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."

Aleister Crowley

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


7. "The weakness of your opposition is your strength."

Navjot Singh Sidhu


8. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

Quotations about: Love -:- Peace and War


9. "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."

Eric Hoffer

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics



10. "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

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity


11. "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

John Wooden

Quotations about: Work and Laziness


12. "The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."

Georges Bidault

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes


13. "Freedom is participation in power."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude


14. "The same wind snuffs candles yet kindles flames; so, where absence kills a little love, it fans a great one."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Love


15. "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

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Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity


16. "Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"

Quotations about: Justice -:- Knowledge, Ignorance


17. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

Mao Zedong

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy


18. "The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends."

Mario Puzo, "The Godfather: Part III"

Quotations about: Richness and Money


19. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Authority, Government


20. "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."

Aldous Huxley, "Ends and Means"

Quotations about: Authority, Government


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21. "Power is the great aphrodisiac."

Henry Kissinger


22. "Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life"


23. "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."

Clarence Darrow

Quotations about: Wit and Humor


24. "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

John Stuart Mill


25. "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

Albert Einstein


26. "A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


27. "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Mahatma Gandhi


28. "You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness


29. "Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


30. "God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Voltaire’s Notebooks"

Quotations about: Peace and War


31. "Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Love



32. "People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage others."

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Quotations about: Dreams and Desires


33. "Information is knowledge, knowledge is influence, influence is power."

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Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance


34. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Forgiveness


35. "Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Vivian Grey"

Quotations about: Human


36. "We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal


37. "A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards."

Karl Kraus

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