"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

Power, Act, Acting, Balance

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"We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power."

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

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"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

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"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

John Steinbeck, American Author

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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

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way."

Tina Turner, American Musician

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"It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."

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"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."

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"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."

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