Power Man Quotes

• Great men are almost always bad men.

  Lord Acton

  Men, Corrupt Power, Power Corrupts

  1887 Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 Apr.

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• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

  Elie Wiesel

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  Plato

  Leadership, Plato, Power

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  Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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• Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

  Euripides

  Mistake, Men, True Power

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• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

  Lord Acton

  Exercise, Men, Influence And Power

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Giving, Fame

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

  Lord Acton

  Exercise, Men, Influence And Power

  "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.

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• The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

  John Fowles

  Men, Stronger, Today

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Men, Vanity

  Song: Ain't No Man Righteous

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• I dont think a powerful man would be interesting unless hed be nice, attractive, with or without the power. Men are interested in powerful men. Women are interested in terrific men!

  Dorothy Stratten

  Powerful, Nice, Men

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• I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Cost, Accepting

  "Life And Death". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1987.

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• All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hate, Past, Men

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

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• Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

  Charles Darwin

  Humility, Men, Compassion

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created.

  Malcolm X

  Spiritual, Love Is, Men

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.375, Ballantine Books

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• Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Power

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• At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

  Nicolas Cage

  Book, Character, Men

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• The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Men, Earth, Four

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• There’s no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Men, Prejudice, Gender

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• The earth turns, and the seasons, and for all his pride and power man cannot temper the winds or change their course. They are the unseen tides that shape our days and our years.

  Hal Borland

  Pride, Men, Years

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• Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the Spoken Word. If thou canst believe, all things are possible.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Believe, Men, Magic

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• Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Men, Guides

  On the Nomination of Archbishop Basilios, January 19, 1951.

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• [I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Science, Men, Fascination

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