Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Children Quotes, Power Quotes

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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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

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I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

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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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It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.

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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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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

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Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.

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Wherever there is power there is age.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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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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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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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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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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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

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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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