"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

Power, Courage, Strength, Opportunity

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"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Power, Failure

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Power, Magic, Awakening, Inspirational

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Power, Fantasy, President, Want

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Power, Fear, Help, May

"...without money you cannot fight money."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Money, Fight, Truth

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Fear, Loss

"When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Power, Rules, Change, Loss

"The soul fire determines the strength of the spirit."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Soul, Fire, Strength, Spirit

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"The shield of faith is sword to conquer every fear."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Woe to the man who offends a small child!"

Justice

"The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they have no thought to spare for such details, their minds are concentrated on their grand invention as a whole, and fancy any one daring to pull them up for a trifle! But that's how they are caught."

Reality

"A wise man is not afraid to face the truth."

Wisdom

"And, beginning to grind his teeth again, Pyotr Petrovich admitted that he'd been a fool--but only to himself, of course."

Regret

"You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just."

Courage

"His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions."

Doubt

"Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past..."

Reflection

"Compassion is the chief law of human existence."

Ethics

"There's something here, my dear boy, that you don't understand yet. A man will fall in love with some beauty, with a woman's body, or even a part of a woman's body (a sensualist can understand that) and he'll abandon his own children for her, sell his father and mother, and his country, Russia, too. If he's honest, he'll steal; if he's humane, he'll murder; if he's faithful, he'll deceive."

Love

"The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us."

Conflict