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Power Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power…
- Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.
- He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power…
- Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
- Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however…
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
- You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
- Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it:…
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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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
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — 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