"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

Power, Opposition, Politicians

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"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."

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"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

Power, Control, Force, Violence

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Faith, Fear

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."

Eliza Farnham, American Activist

Power, Time, Soul, Church

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"Beginnings are always messy."

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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

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"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

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"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."

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"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"The soul fire determines the strength of the 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."

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

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."

Explore more quotes by John Galsworthy

"A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it."

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."

"Beginnings are always messy."

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."

"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

"The French cook; we open tins."

"Headlines twice the size of the events."

"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."