"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s):
Power
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- "The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
- "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life."
More In Power
- "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies."― Henry Adams
- "Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."― Emile M. Cioran
- "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."― William Hazlitt