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A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate. — Paul Eldridge

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. — Horatio Nelson

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him. — Bentley Little

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago. — Walter Wriston

It is not simply to show power...that a man...throws coppers into the sea...In doing this he is also sacrificing to the gods and spirits... — Marcel Mauss

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends. — George Muller

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust. — Wendy McElroy

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible. — George S. Clason

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom. — Mary Robinson

John Mandrake was an attractive young man, and the scent of power hung about him, sweet and intoxicating, like honeysuckle in the evening air. — Jonathan Stroud

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. — Thomas Malthus

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it. — Leo Tolstoy

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up. — Charles M. Schwab

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." After — Glenn Greenwald

He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer ... Man — Elie Wiesel

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? — William Gurnall

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. — Stephen Ambrose

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He — Clifford D. Simak

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest. — George William Russell

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave. — William Hazlitt

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. — Muammar Al-Gaddafi

The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go. — Robert Browning

Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity. — Stieg Larsson

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. — Alexander Pope

Indeed, the power of words has gone to man's head in more than one way. To define has come to mean almost the same thing as to understand. — Alan W. Watts

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much. — Michael Bassey Johnson

My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power! — Julieanne O'Connor

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable. — James Bryce

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time. — Alain Gerbault

Reading if a man has a crush on you can be to your advantage. If you know a guy likes you, the power shifts in your favor giving you more confidence. — Georgios Christodoulou

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. — Zora Neale Hurston

There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action. — Richard Wright

Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man. — Thomas Tredgold

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end. — Joshua

In the Human Form..Man has been granted the faculty of 'discretion' and the power of 'discerning'..grows only through 'depths' of understanding Self!! — Abha Maryada Banerjee

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart. — Alan Redpath

Energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man. — Samuel Smiles

He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. — Anthony Doerr

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man. — Mickey Mantle

Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power. — Ray Bradbury

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man. — D.H. Lawrence

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster. — Tahir Shah

The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows — Ethel Lilian Voynich

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty. — Henry Ward Beecher

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice — Bertrand Russell

William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, said, The greatness of a man's power is in the measure of his surrender. — Rick Warren

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power. — Mahatma Gandhi

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver. — Charles Spurgeon

But he is only a man; he derives his power from other men, who will follow him for only as long as they believe in him. — Laila Lalami

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. — Thomas Jefferson

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. — Winston Churchill

The strength of man sinks in the hour of trial; but there doth live a Power that to the battle girdeth the weak. — Joanna Baillie

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable. — Katy Perry

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future. — Saul Alinsky

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power. — Carly Simon

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. — James Naismith

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others. — Edward Abbey

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows. — Ludwig Von Mises

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. — Vinoba Bhave

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. — John F. Kennedy

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. — William Shakespeare

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. — Blaise Pascal

To do something is in every man's power. — Samuel Johnson

The strength of a man isn't seen in the power of his arms. It's seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you. — Steve Maraboli

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another. — George Farquhar

In the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. — Nikolai Berdyaev

But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel? — Milan Kundera

Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Science and industry have in less than fifty years developed man's power of destruction to an extent which makes comparison with the past futile. — Frederick Maurice

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power. — David Mitchell

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. — Terry Pratchett

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself. — Seneca The Younger

Man's got the power to break a woman's heart. Women have their own power. Learn this in future, choose better. — Kristen Ashley

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour. — John Milton

There is a something in the very tone of the man who has been with Jesus which has more power to touch the heart than the most perfect oratory: — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves. — John Calvin

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted. — Charles Spurgeon

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone. — Swami Vivekananda

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived. — Aldous Huxley

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front. — Jamie Dornan

In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses ... a slave obeys. — Ken Levine

Let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature. — Epictetus

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. — George Orwell

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. — Harry Truman

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power. — H. Emilie Cady

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze. — Mark Twain

The power of a woman is in the tears she sheds, and the power of a man is wiping those tears while shedding his own. — Michael Jones

The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man. — Thomas S. Monson

Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that. — Susan Estrich

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling. — Francois Mauriac

In all other matters I will yield to any man whatsoever; but I have neither the power nor the will to deny the Word of God. — Martin Luther