"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts."

Power, Energy, Facts

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

Power, Religion, Reason

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Power, Influence, Responsibility, Truth

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Power, Justice, Change, Strength

"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

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Power, Man, State

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

Power, Obedience

"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

"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Power, Weakness, Resistance, Control

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"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."

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"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

"The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a 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."

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

"A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself."

"I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible."

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

"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

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"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."

"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

"All experience is an arch, to build upon."

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."

"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."

"Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education."

"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."