William Shakespeare Quotes, Retirement Quotes, Power Quotes

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

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PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

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Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

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When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

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If one has got power, one must manifest it in action.

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Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

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Lack is more in means, than in principles.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.

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Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

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