Power & Leadership Sayings
151 sayings found from the Modern era from 151 authors
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Man is a thinking being, a being that thinks.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
The great difficulty is to realize that it is not I who am thinking, but the language which is thinking in me.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Stalin was the only foreign leader I ever respected.
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
The English working class is nothing but a mass of isolated, mutually hostile atoms, each striving to exploit the others.
The Americans are a people who are always in motion, always changing, always seeking something new.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
The replacement of the power of the individual by the power of a community constitutes the decisive step of civilization.
The future of man is not in the stars but in the control of his own behavior.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The essence of secrecy is that it is a form of power.
Moral rules are not arbitrary decrees, but conditions of social life.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
I have made it a rule of my life to avoid all unnecessary contact with the world.