3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
3 December 2020 Swami Vivekananda The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
3 December 2020 Eli Whitney I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
3 December 2020 John Quincy Adams Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
3 December 2020 Herodotus The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
3 December 2020 Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
3 December 2020 Philip Zimbardo Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
3 December 2020 Andrew Carnegie Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen Today’s leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.
3 December 2020 Julia Margaret Cameron When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
3 December 2020 Stendhal If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
