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Power-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
— Mary Parker Follett
France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.
— Thomas Sowell
The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
— Baruch Spinoza
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
— D.H. Lawrence
Love has power in it. At the end, it wins over all miseries.
— Debasish Mridha
Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.
— Richard J. Foster
It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.
— Russell Banks
You have power over your mind.Think great and be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He could silence me, but he had no power over my mind.
— Alexandra Bracken
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
— Iqbal Quadir
The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.
— Louise Hay
Opportunity has power over all things.
— Sophocles
When you let another steal your joy you give them power over you. Don't let anyone steal your smile
— Tammy Johnson
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.
— William P. Young
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
— Gloria Steinem
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
— George Eliot
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
— Harriet Martineau
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
— Orison Swett Marden
You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.
— Gina Greenlee
The law has no power over heroes.
— Charlotte Lennox
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
— Murray N. Rothbard
If you would accept that, you create your sins. Then perhaps, you will accept that Satan has no power over you. — Zarina Bibi
If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.
— Victoria Osteen
Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.
— Chinelo Okparanta
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
— Stephen Kinzer
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
— Eckhart Tolle
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have an uncanny power over food.
— M.F.K. Fisher
Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.
— Robin Wasserman
The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.
— Luis Carlos Montalvan
A wise person has more power over his enemies than they have over themselves.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
— Brandon Sanderson
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
— Orrin Woodward
By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.
— Mohammed Emami-Kashani
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
— Nicholas Royle
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Can you harness the power of drugs without them taking over, without turning into a dazed zombie?
— Gilles Deleuze
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
— Mary Parker Follett
I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.
— Shirley Hazzard
If you ever care about things, that means they have power over you.
— Frederick Lenz
The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
— Benjamin Tucker
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
— Charlize Theron
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
— Earl Nightingale
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
— Edmund Burke
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
— Denis Diderot
Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.
— Steven Pressfield
hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear.
— Terry Pratchett
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
— Sarah Addison Allen
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.
— Lucy H. Pearce
Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
— Oprah Winfrey
If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct our first entry into the world
— Frank B. Anderson
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me.Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies. — William Blake
One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.
— Ines De La Fressange
When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level.
— Frederick Lenz
But honestly, I hate my dad the most. Because you love him the most. When you give someone your love, you give them power over you.
— Shelley Coriell
He is truly great in power who hath power over himself.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.
— James Hunter
Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running.
— John Lennon
Power, approval, comfort, and control are meta-idols that hold sway over our daily lives.
— Timothy Keller
It is astonishing what power words have over men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
— J. P. Vinluca
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
— David Mitchell
I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.
— Claudia Kennedy
Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.
— Louis De Bernieres
Never give people power over you until you know how to get rid of them.
— Richard Holloway
If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
— Stephen Colbert
I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.
— Isobelle Carmody
And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased. She was power.
— Michael Walterich
was so easy to ignore people when you understood how little power they really had over you - he
— Lev Grossman
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— C.S. Lewis
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
— Thomas Paine