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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 4 scene 1
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful", 1756
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.: Lord Acton, Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887
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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.: Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.: James Bridie
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.: Lord Acton
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

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