Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Power Quotes

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

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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

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The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

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How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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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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Wherever there is power there is age.

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

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The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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

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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

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