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This is a list of quotes about power
A man's character
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
AmbitionAmbition is the immoderate desire for power.
Baruch Spinoza
Enemies to lawsPeople crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Lord Macaulay
Finding strengthYou have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Getting and spendingGetting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
William Wordsworth
IdeasAll the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
It doesn't mean you are neutralWashing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire
Justice and powerJustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal
KnowledgeKnowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
Man's greatnessMan's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
The most powerful forceNever forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller
The power to say yesNever allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
To be able to darePower is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
