961 private quotes tagged power

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” — David Brinkley

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“The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.” — Anthony J. D'Angelo

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“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.” — Cesare Pavese

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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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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.” — Georg Buchner

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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.” — Ron Wyden

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“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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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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“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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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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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson

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“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” — Felix Frankfurter

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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” — Stendhal

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“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.” — Bob Dylan

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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 greatest power is often simple patience.” — E. Joseph Cossman

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.” — Don DeLillo

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“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” — Barney Frank

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“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.” — Richard J. Daley

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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton

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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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