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Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.

– Alexander HamiltonRate it:

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

– Emerich Edward DalbertRate it:

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

– Lord Acton, 1887Rate it:

Power without morality leads to abuse, and freedom without morality leads to depravity.

– Oscar Auliq-IceRate it:

Power without wisdom is uncontrolled fire; it destroys more than it creates.

– Aloo Denish ObieroRate it:

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

– Olive SchreinerRate it:

Power's not a chalice. It's a hammer. And it only does one thing. Power smashes. The subtext of all power is extortion. It's always the threat of force, of imprisonment, the threat of death. Always.”

– Adam SkelterRate it:

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

– Harold MacmillanRate it:

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

– Stephen VizinczeyRate it:

Powerful quotes are birthed out of a life of someone who lives and studies the Word of God.

– Vince BakerRate it:

Powerful quotes are like an unbreakable mind defense by those who think about and live by them.

– Vince BakerRate it:

Powerful quotes belong to powerful people, and weak quotes belong to weak people.

– Vince BakerRate it:

PR experts need to be brilliantly trained and prepared. That's not just good sense - there are very concrete and powerful reasons for that... We used to have between ten or twelve hours to solve a crisis. Now we don't even have ten minutes!

– Maxim BeharRate it:

PR is not an elitist industry. Rather, it is an industry for the people it is supposed to reach. If it needs to reach a working class demographic, then PR experts would have to speak their language and know how to speak to them in the most effective manner.

– Maxim BeharRate it:

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

– Theodore Roosevelt, An AutobiographyRate it:

Practical knowledge is always surrounded by questions while theoretical knowledge always surrounded by success !!!

– Sudam TilekarRate it:

Practical observation commonly consists of collecting a few facts and loading them with guesses.

– Author UnknownRate it:

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

– J.P. McEvoyRate it:

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

– Henry AdamsRate it:

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

– Samuel SmilesRate it:

Practically every man remains in delirium before marrying the woman that he would not meet the ordeal like that of other husbands at the hands of their wives, but soon after wedding all those thoughts start shattering before own eyes and the lucky one awakens to the marital life’s reality the very first.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Practically EVERYONE considers themselves to be a wise in their own lives, so NONE likes to be given any preaching or an advice by ANYONE on anything ; but still if SOMEONE appreciates or seeks it constantly from other person, then the people ought to unearth that guy's real intention or the truth that hides often behind their relationship in a world full of lies.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Practically NO ONE bothers how ANYONE has achieved so much wealth and top position in an organization or a nation; if SOMEONE has a lot of money & high post, literally EVERYONE starts hobnobbing with that person with a mere aim to get some profitability/opportunity from him/her. Such is the sick mentality of society

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Practically speaking, today is yesterday and there is no certainty tomorrow will ever arrive.

– Ted E DeGrootRate it:

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