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Quotes About Power

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
~ Norman Spinrad
It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.
~ Norman Spinrad
To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
~ Norman Thomas
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
In every blade of grass rises the strength of the sun.
~ Normandi Ellis
Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.
~ Normandi Ellis
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
~ Novalis
Ein Kommandowort bewegt Armeen; das Wort Freiheit Nationen.
~ Novalis
Ferice de limba noastr? c?ci e lipsit? de suple?e - ce? puternic o supune, cel slab e supus de ea - în primul caz manifestarea for?ei e mai v?dit?, mai frumoas?; în al doilea, neputun?a mai izbitoare - ?i astfel t?râmul frumuse?ii r?mâne mai pur, mai nobil, mai neamestecat.
~ Novalis
Where there is a woman there is magic.
~ Ntozake Shange
States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
~ O Henry
Who had brought him this way? Whose was the unseen hand, the unseen leash?
~ Unknown
Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.
~ Unknown
It was a sad truth that all the masses of men in their causes would be led by ambitious men, by power-hungry, cunningly self serving men, rather than by the humanists, the idealists; and better led for it, he thought.
~ Unknown
Hüsamettin Albay?m! Hamlet ya?asayd? ?imdi tümgeneral olmu?tu, de?il mi?
~ Unknown
Ve Tanr?, emekli albaylar? kendi suretinde yaratt?.
~ Unknown
You'll soon understand that the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty and power of their dreams.
~ Obert Skye
To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Tp Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.
~ Octave Mirbeau
C'est que les grands assassins ont toujours été des amoureux terribles... Leur puissance génésique correspond à leur puissance criminelle... Ils aiment comme ils tuent!
~ Octave Mirbeau
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
~ Octavia Butler