Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or dissipation:

“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)