Power and Weakness

"The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world."

Harry S. Truman

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars."

George Marshall

Peace and War

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down."

Jimmy Durante

Manners and Ethics

Power and Weakness

Success and Fame

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

Joy and Sadness

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice."

Simone Weil

Justice

Love

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power and Weakness

Various

Rating: 2.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Never show your weakness to the world because the world is very much interested to play with it."

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Power and Weakness

Various

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Freedom and power bring responsibility."

Jawaharlal Nehru "A Tryst With Destiny"

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand."

Native American Proverbs

Oration and Silence

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Thomas Jefferson

Authority, Government

Freedom and Servitude

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators."

Brother Roger of Taize

Dreams and Desires

Power and Weakness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have."

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Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat."

Hermann Göring (radio broadcast)

Peace and War

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nature has given women so much power that the law has wisely given them very little."

Samuel Johnson

Law and Crime

Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it, and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

Aung San Suu Kyi

Authority, Government

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Government: a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

George Washington

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Edward Dahlberg

Authority, Government

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

Elie Wiesel

Justice

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Helen Keller

Power and Weakness

Work and Laziness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long."

Boris Yeltsin

Authority, Government

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

God and Religion

Oration and Silence

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."

Margaret Atwood

Power and Weakness

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

William Pitt the Elder (speech, House of Lords, Jan 9, 1770)

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshipping power soon worship evil."

Clive Staples Lewis "The Allegory of Love"

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Sir Edmund Hillary

Nature and Animals

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."

Albert Einstein

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We keep seeking our angel, demons come unsought."

Agnieszka Lisak

Good and Evil

Power and Weakness

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

Human

Peace and War

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."

Gloria Steinem

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Abraham Lincoln

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; but they are the instruments of the wise."

Samuel Lover

Power and Weakness

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

Courage and Fear

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting"

Memory

Power and Weakness

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

Lewis Mumford

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Religion differs from magic in that it is not concerned with control or manipulation of the powers confronted. Rather it means submission to, trust in, and adoration of, what is apprehended as the divine nature of ultimate reality."

Joachim Wach "The Comparative Study of Religions"

God and Religion

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

Sophocles

Manners and Ethics

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Art and Culture

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance."

Herman Melville "Mardi"

Power and Weakness

Various

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Peace and War

Politics and Diplomacy

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."

Korean Proverbs

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life."

Blaise Pascal "Pensées"

Human

Power and Weakness

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

Alvin Toffler "The Democratic Difference"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Power tires only those who do not have it."

Giulio Andreotti

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Saul Alinsky

Power and Weakness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Justice is simply the advantage of the stronger."

Thrasymachus

Justice

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)