"Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power."

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"Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power."

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"If human equality is to be for ever averted - if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently - then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."

George Orwell, British Author

Power, Equality, Insanity, Control

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Power, Goodness, Man, Nothing

"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Power, Age, Sex

"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."

Horace, Roman Poet

Power, Fancy

"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Power, Destruction, Reflection, Truth

"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Power, War, Communism, Corruption

"Ursula Monkton smiled, and the lightnings wreathed and writhed about her. She was power incarnate, standing in the crackling air. She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Power, Secrets, Adultery, World

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Power, Blind, Man, Mind

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Power, War, Lies, Spirit

"Three generations before I was the one meant for the necklace. I saw him when I was three years old, so clear and strong that he could slip his warm hand in mine, he could lift me in theair, yes, lift my body, but I refused him. I turned my back on him. I told him, You go back to the hell from which you came. And I used my power to fight him."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Power, Strength, Vision, Spirit

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"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals."

Knowledge, History, Memory, Learning, Truth

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

Equality, Freedom, Justice, Man

"He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up."

Leadership, Responsibility, Guidance, Strength

"If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again."

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"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."

Education, World

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."

History, People, Animals, Man

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

Law, Respect

"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being."

Social, Humanity, Equality, Love, Integration

"You can't legislate good will - that comes through education."

Education, Will

"So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."

Motivation, Initiative, Action, Life, Effort