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«What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power»
«We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.»
«War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.»
«We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
History,
Mankind,
Power
| Keywords:
History of, History of the, History of the world, The History, The History of
«We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Dependence,
Power
| Keywords:
break out, cycle, dependence, exert, financially, immense, imposed, that much, vicious, vicious cycle
«We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power.. the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Nature,
Power,
Struggle,
Weakness
| Keywords:
The Battle, The God, vigilant
«We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
cowardly, flatteries, flattery, ill, implied, implies, implying
«Victory; a matter of staying power.»
«We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
affords, blame, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, judgment, praise
«We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They are necessary symbols that protect what we cherish.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Failure,
Power
| Keywords:
bombs, impressive, rockets, warship
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