Maya Angelou Quotes, Power Quotes, Causes Quotes

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

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The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

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Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

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Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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The force of arms only reveals man s weakness.

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Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

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Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

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Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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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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