Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Power Quotes, Authority Quotes

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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Do the thing and you will have the power.

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Power is the recognition of necessity.

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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

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Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

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Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.

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Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

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Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

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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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Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.

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Superhuman power is not strong enough.

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

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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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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

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