961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“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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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” — Epictetus

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“We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.” — Tavis Smiley

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“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.” — Irving Babbitt

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“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.” — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

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“Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.” — Ossie Davis

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“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.” — George W. Bush

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“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.” — Alvin Toffler

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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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“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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“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.” — Liam Neeson

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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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“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” — Lewis B. Smedes

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“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” — Pericles

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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.” — Pope Paul VI

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“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” — Yoko Ono

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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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“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” — Peter Drucker

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“When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.” — Julia Child

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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” — Horace Mann

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