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3.4 · 48 votes
Jean Rostand
PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century
3.0 · 40 votes · 161 reads
3.3 · 51 votes · 145 reads
3.0 · 51 votes · 179 reads
Abigail Adams
PoliticianAmerican1744 · 18th century
Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.3 · 49 votes · 182 reads
4.0 · 54 votes · 113 reads
- Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquiredJean Baudrillard
PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century
3.1 · 64 votes · 89 reads
- Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
René DescartesMathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century
4.4 · 44 votes · 99 reads
- He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
3.1 · 34 votes · 66 reads
- He who pays the piper calls the tune.
4.9 · 27 votes · 20 reads
- I am the state.
3.4 · 15 votes · 75 reads
- I believe in delegating power.
3.5 · 49 votes · 56 reads
- Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
Larry PageBusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century
3.3 · 33 votes · 120 reads
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.5 · 41 votes · 165 reads
- Power is the great aphrodisiac.
4.5 · 27 votes · 156 reads
- Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
4.2 · 14 votes · 176 reads
- The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.
Soren KierkegaardPhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century
4.0 · 33 votes · 28 reads
- The law always limits every power it gives.
David HumePhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century
3.7 · 62 votes · 49 reads
- The look of a king is itself a deed.
3.2 · 37 votes · 20 reads
- The property of power is to protect.
Blaise PascalPhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century
4.2 · 10 votes · 194 reads
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