Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Time Quotes, Power Quotes

UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.

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The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

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Power is the recognition of necessity.

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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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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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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 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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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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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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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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The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

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

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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

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COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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

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