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Power Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
- Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
- Man is more powerful than matter.
- There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.
- All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
- The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.
- There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
- The depositary of power is always unpopular.
- Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.
- Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do…
- Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
- I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs,…
- Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
- The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.
- Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of…
- Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo