A Quote by Paul Valery
Power without abuse loses its charm.
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
The abuse of power that seems to create the most unhappiness is when a person uses personal power to get ahead without regards to the welfare of others, or when power is used to go into the lower dimensional planes.
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.
Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.
The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.
It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.
The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
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