961 private quotes tagged power

“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” — Milton Friedman

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“As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.” — Benjamin Carson

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“It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.” — Robert Plant

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“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” — Eric Hoffer

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“It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.” — Whoopi Goldberg

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“I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.” — Rick Warren

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“Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.” — Eric Hoffer

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“The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.” — Charles de Gaulle

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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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“The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.” — Colin Powell

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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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“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.” — John Stuart Mill

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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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“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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“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.” — Joan Didion

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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 power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.” — Michael J. Fox

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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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“The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.” — Wilson Mizner

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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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