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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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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

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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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All human power is a compound of time and patience.

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The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one.

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Even the least work done for others awakens the power within.

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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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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.

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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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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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Lack is more in means, than in principles.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

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

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising 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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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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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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