Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Kings Quotes, Power Quotes

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.

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Will power defeats all powers

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Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

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You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

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O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

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Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.

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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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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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The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

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