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Quotes about power
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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)
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? (Wiesenthal Simon)
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Not necessity, not desire --no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything --health, food, a place to live, entertainment --they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The look of a king is itself a deed. (Wiesenthal Simon)
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Power is every stealing from the many to the few. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The measure of a man is what he does with power. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. (Wiesenthal Simon)
He who pays the piper calls the tune. (Wiesenthal Simon)
If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You can always buy her back again. (Wiesenthal Simon)
Voice of one, voice of none. (Wiesenthal Simon)
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. (Wiesenthal Simon)
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty. (Wiesenthal Simon)
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