"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."

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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

"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

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Power, People, Yesterday

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Prayer, Righteous, Effectiveness, Spirituality

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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

Love

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."

Love

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

Love

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

Time

"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."

Nature

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

Art

"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."

"The prayer of a righteous man avails much."

Explore more quotes by Honore de Balzac

"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."

"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."

"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."

"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."

"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."

"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."