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Power Quotes by David Mitchell
- Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
- If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist. However, if happiness…
- Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others while the vast…
- What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the…
- Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It…
- You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be…
- If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I…
More Power Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A good intention clothes itself with power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle