Quotations About / On: POWER

  • 181.
    The will to life? In its place I always found only the will to power.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 10, p. 187, selection 5[1], number 1, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished fragments dating to November 1882February 1883. Originally meant to be attributed to Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.)
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  • 182.
    When power becomes gracious and descends into the visible—such descent I call beauty.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 152, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 118, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Penguin Books (1978). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Second Part, "On Those Who are Sublime," (1883).)
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  • 183.
    The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
    (George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. Moredecai, quoting a Hebrew sage, in Daniel Deronda, bk. 6, ch. 46 (1874-1876). Real name: Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans.)
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  • 184.
    Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
    (Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Roman orator, philosopher, statesman. Institutiones, III, 1.)
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  • 185.
    There is a power whose care
    Teaches thy way along that pathless coast,—
    (William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), U.S. poet. To a Waterfowl (l. 13-14). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 186.
    Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
    (P.J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. "Why God Is a Republican and Santa Claus Is a Democrat," preface, Parliament of Whores (1991).)
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  • 187.
    ... the constructive power of an image is not measured in terms of its truth, but of the love it inspires.
    (Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 15 (1962). On African American resentment of such stereotypical figures as Uncle Remus and Ol' Black Joe, which whites still regarded with affection. Boyle, a Southern white who advocated integration in the 1950s, understood African Americans' resentment but thought it perhaps ill-advised.)
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  • 188.
    Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...
    (June Jordan (b. 1936), African American poet and social critic. On Call, ch. 9 (1985). Written in 1984.)
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  • 189.
    Captains of industry, your aimless power
    Awakens harsh velleities of time....
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "X" ("Sonnets of the Blood").)
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  • 190.
    That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic:
    Invisibility, and the anaesthetic power
    To deaden my attention in your direction.
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. The Mosquito.)
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