"It is not required to understand power, to…" — Lyndon B. Johnson
"It is not required to understand power, to use it."
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317 Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson has 317 quotes on this site.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and…
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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the…
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I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.
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Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts…
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I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to…
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...in the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what…
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Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and…
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.…
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...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right…
— Aristotle
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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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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
— Aristotle
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
— Aristotle
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in…
— 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
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