Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Military Quotes, Power Quotes

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

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In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

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I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

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Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

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We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.

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

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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

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

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Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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