Quote by Paul Valery
Power without abuse loses its charm. - Paul Valery

Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery

Other quotes by Paul Valery

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Poetry
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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The point of power is always in the present moment. – Louise L. Hay

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power

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. Its more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. – Diana Ross

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power

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison

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One and God make a majority. – Frederick Douglass

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Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work. – Lemony Snicket

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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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