Greater Power Quotes

• Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2016

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  When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Artist, Power

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• Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past?

  Edward Snowden

  Technology, Past, Government

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

  Paul Epworth

  Song, People, Language

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• There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Bye, Rejection, Good Bye

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• Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement that can afford our sensory organs greater scope in giving us knowledge of the world. Besides augmenting our own possibilities of pleasure , such improved somatic functioning and awareness can give us greater power in performing virtuous acts for the benefit of others, since all action somehow depends on the efficacy of our bodily instrument.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Skills, Medicine

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• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Europe, United States

  Ley D. Trotsky, Leon Trotsky (1973). “The Bolsheviki and world peace”, Hyperion Pr

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• Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have greater power in the world than an idea that is true but complex.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Simple, Ideas, Mind

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.186, Library of America

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

  Louis Sullivan

  Real, Love Is, Two

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• If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Equality, Order, Law

  Tibor R. Machan (1995). “Private Rights and Public Illusions”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love.

  Wayne Dyer

  Unconditional Love, Heaven, Earth

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• There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.

  Margaret Mead

  Zest, World, Greater

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• There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Power Of Love, Babylon

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sight, Consciousness, Thinker

  Sri Aurobindo (1990). “The Life Divine”, p.897, Lotus Press

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• Greater powers and resources do not guarantee tactical superiority.

  Sun Bin

  Guarantees, Resources, Tactical

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• Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

  Joseph Campbell

  Lying, Challenges, World

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• The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Perfect, Agents, Causes

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God”

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• We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Height, Infinite, Divine

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.952, 谷月社

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• You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

  Robert Jordan

  Forever, Break, Traps

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.376, Macmillan

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• Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be set free (cf. Lk. 11:21-22). In every way, therefore, and especially through peace of soul, we must make ourselves a dwelling-place for the Holy Spirit.

  Diadochos of Photiki

  Christian, Taken, Dwelling Place

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• My best source of grounding are animals and nature. Animals live more in the moment and don't worry so much! And nature is proof of a greater power than myself. Both put things in perspective, or at least gently move us forward.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Moving, Animal, Perspective

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• For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

  Ovid

  Heart, Hands, Mind

  Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

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• Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Silence, Mind, Depth

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