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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.

For above all, love is a sharing. Love is a power. Love is a change that takes place in our own heart. Sometimes it may change others, but always it changes us.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous.

God is with us to be utilised. His Power, His Love, His Thought, His Presence, must be at our disposal, like other great forces, such as sunshine and wind and rain. We can use them or not, as we please. That we could use them to their full potentiality is, of course, not to be thought of; but we can use them in proportion to our ability.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

Freedom exists only with power.

From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.