961 private quotes tagged power

“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” — Epicurus

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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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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” — Aristotle

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“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.” — Edmund Burke

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“The only real power comes out of a long rifle.” — Joseph Stalin

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“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” — Albert Einstein

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“All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” — Charles A. Beard

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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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“My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.” — Clay Aiken

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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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“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.” — Joseph Conrad

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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.” — Ani DiFranco

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“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.” — Stanley Kubrick

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“With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.” — Andrew Shue

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“For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.” — George Whitefield

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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.” — John Ruskin

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“I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.” — John Adams

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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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“Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.” — Paul Wellstone

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“The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand, the anti-ObamaCare forces argue, there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.” — John Podhoretz

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