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Power Quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- A dream has power to poison sleep.
- Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
- It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to…
- The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love…
- Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the…
- The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us.
- The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep…
- Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
- As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea, And with great power it forth led me To walk in…
- The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through…
- I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and…
- Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
- To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;…
- The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from…
- We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,…
- In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common;…
- You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to…
- Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
- To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — 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
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- 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
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo