power
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘power’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.” -William Glasser
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“To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior’s spirit. It takes power to do that.” -Carlos Castaneda
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“Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all – of which all of humanity can be proud.” -Oliver Tambo
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“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.” -Alfred Adler
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“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” -Felix Frankfurter
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“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” -Nido Qubein
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“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.” -Buenaventura Durruti
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“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.” -Jean Anouilh
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“A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.” -Dean Koontz
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“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.” -Josh Billings
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“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Mary Pickford
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“When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” -Michael Ende
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“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces – my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.” -Elizabeth…
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“Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.” -Louisa May Alcott
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“A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.” -Jean Rostand
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“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.” -Augustus Hare
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“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.” -Alexander the Great
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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.” -Clarence Darrow
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“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.” -Julia Margaret Cameron
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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” -Oswald Chambers
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“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.” -M. Scott Peck
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“I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.” -Stephen King
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“People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.” -Albert Bandura
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“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.” -Horace
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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” -Mary McLeod Bethune
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“The most efficient water power in the world – women’s tears.” -Wilson Mizner
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“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” -Jean de La Fontaine
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“For as long as the power of America’s diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.” -Ron Kind
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“There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” -Elton John
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“Don’t let your will roar when your power only whispers.” -Thomas Fuller
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“The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to.” -Emil Zatopek
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“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” -James Madison
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“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” -Richard Dawkins
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“The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.” -Virginia Woolf
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“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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“The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.” -Colin Powell
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“How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?” -Robert Plant
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“The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.” -Nikola Tesla
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“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.” -Robin Morgan
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“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” -Irving Berlin
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“Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.” -Cornelius Nepos
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“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’” -Samuel Butler
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“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.” -John Ruskin
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“Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.” -Mary J. Blige
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“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.” -Bo Bennett
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“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” -Milton Friedman
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” -Plutarch
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“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” -Julius Caesar
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“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.” -Robert Staughton Lynd
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“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” -Russell Baker
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“Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.” -Malcolm X
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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” -Mao Zedong
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“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.” -Tyler Perry
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“One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.” -Jim Carrey
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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” -Thurgood Marshall
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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” -Honore de Balzac
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“In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.” -Marianne Williamson
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“The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.” -Rene Descartes
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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” -James Allen
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“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.” -Simone de Beauvoir
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“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.” -Cal Thomas
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“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.” -Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” -Robert Downey, Jr.
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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.” -George Eliot
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“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” -Peter Drucker
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“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.” -Edmund Burke
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“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” -J. K. Rowling
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“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.” -John Steinbeck
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“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” -Walt Whitman
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“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.” -Samuel Adams
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“I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -Mike Ditka
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“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.” -Marilyn French
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“We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.” -Paul Kagame
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“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.” -Salvador Dali
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“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” -Huey Newton
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” -Roger Babson
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“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.” -Thomas Sowell
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“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.” -John Adams
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“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that’s certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.” -Hillary Clinton
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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” -Sydney J. Harris
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“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.” -Og Mandino
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“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.” -Joseph Stalin
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“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.” -Vinoba Bhave
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“If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” -Howard Zinn
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“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” -Alexander Hamilton
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“What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” -Alexander Graham Bell
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“Everything is generated through your own will power.” -Ray Bradbury
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“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.” -Billy Graham
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“All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.” -Theodore Bikel
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“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” -George Orwell
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“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.” -William James
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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” -Carl Jung
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“The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.” -Erich Fromm
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the…
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“We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.” -Clint Eastwood
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“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” -Stephen Covey
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“The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.” -Mitt Romney
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“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power… the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” -Patrick Henry
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“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” -Steven Wright
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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.” -William Wordsworth
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“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.” -Devon Aoki
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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” -Voltaire
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“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” -Thomas Paine
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“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” -Malcom X
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“My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.” -Carly Fiorina
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“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.” -Yogi Berra
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“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” -Richard Bach
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“Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.” -Ayn Rand
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“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.” -Chanakya
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“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.” -Plato
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“There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.” -Mark Hopkins
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“I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.” -Johnny Depp
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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” -Napoleon Hill
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“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.” -Agnes de Mille
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“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” -Benito Mussolini
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“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.” -Oliver Stone
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“This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or…
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“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” -Ayrton Senna
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“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.” -Theodore Dreiser
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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” -Albert Camus
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“Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.” -Marsha Sinetar
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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” -John Henrik Clarke
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“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” -Robert Anthony
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“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” -Charlie Chaplin
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