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Letter "P" » Power
«The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, The Abuse
«The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
angels, caused, excess, fallen angel, The Angels
«The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Advertising,
Power,
Publicity
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, publicity, tumor
«The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, liable, lodged, lodges, lodging
«The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Power,
Speech,
Thinking,
Writing
| Keywords:
arm, devour, jawed, jaws, open to, stretched, stretched out, writing arm
«The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while»
«The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Judgement,
Power,
Religion
| Keywords:
aspirations, inadequately, Jewish
«The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.»
«The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Power
| Keywords:
agony, arrogance, in the United States, this century
«The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
assume, devil, pleasing, shape, the Devil
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