961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.” — Eric Hoffer

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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.” — William Hazlitt

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“A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.” — Dean Koontz

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“In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.” — Marc Andreessen

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“Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.” — Shakti Gawain

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“The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?” — W. E. B. Du Bois

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“A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.” — Paris Hilton

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“The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.” — Jonathan Swift

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“When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” — Michael Ende

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“Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.” — William Cobbett

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“The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'” — Abigail Adams

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“You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.” — Jack Black

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“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.” — George W. Bush

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“Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.” — Tom Stoppard

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“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.” — Sitting Bull

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“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.” — Simone Weil

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“The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.” — Michel Foucault

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