Quotes by Power Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. Arthur Koestler power wisdom blessed The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Arthur Schopenhauer errors power science All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant humorous power profound The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Audre Lorde power house peace A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. Augustus Toplady power men thinking After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office. Augustus office power time The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged. Aung San Suu Kyi underprivileged viewpoints power Power should answer by action, not by speech. Austin O'Malley speech power answers The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand power wisdom men The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal. Ayn Rand power men mean No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. Ayn Rand overcoming-addiction power happiness Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand strength power men To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. Ayn Rand real power needs I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Ayn Rand power life needs Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. Ayn Rand escaping power men Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. Ayn Rand weed power lust In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance. B. H. Liddell Hart power war history The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men. B. H. Liddell Hart power truth war The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. Baltasar Gracian diversity power justice Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. Barack Obama voice change power «1234567891011»