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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.: William Carleton
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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.: Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The conscience of a people is their power.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
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Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is.: Sir William Draper
Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)

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