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Power Quotes by Henry Adams
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
- American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central…
- Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his…
- Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies,…
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but…
- The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
- Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility…
- Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage…
- That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never…
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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