961 private quotes tagged power

“The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.” — Philip Zimbardo

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“I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.” — Drew Barrymore

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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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“Calmness is the cradle of power.” — J. G. Holland

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“Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.” — Daniel Webster

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“There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.” — Thomas Frank

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“What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.” — Miguel de Cervantes

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“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.” — Clarence Darrow

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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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“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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“Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.” — Andrew Jackson

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“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.” — Ralph Nader

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“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.” — George W. Bush

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“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal

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“Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.” — Alvin Adams

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“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“I'm sure we, the American people, are the b--t of jokes by those in power.” — Alice Walker

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“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.” — Amelia Barr

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“If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.” — E. Stanley Jones

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“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.” — Indira Gandhi

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“Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.” — Joseph Addison

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