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Quotes about power
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Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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The point of power is always in the present moment. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Calmness is the cradle of power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The law always limits every power it gives. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. (Wiesenthal Simon)
I said to the almond tree, Friend, speak to me of God, and the almond tree blossomed. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Wiesenthal Simon)
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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