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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Character is power. – Booker T. Washington

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. – Bruce Lee

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. – Aristotle

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. – Ayn Rand

The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else! – Friedrich Nietzsche

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. – Benjamin Disraeli

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. – Erich Fromm

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. – Peace Pilgrim

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare! – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just. – Blaise Pascal

The eye sees what it brings the power to see. – Thomas Carlyle

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful. – Alan Watts

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. – Booker T. Washington

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People. – Benjamin Disraeli