961 private quotes tagged power

“The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.” — George W. Bush

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“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.” — Jonathan Swift

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“In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.” — Robert Hall

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“I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.” — Noam Chomsky

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“With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.” — Judd Rose

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“Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.” — Hannah Arendt

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“If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.” — Simone Weil

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“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.” — Simone Weil

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“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.” — Herodotus

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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” — Toni Morrison

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“We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.” — Walter Scott

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“There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.” — Doris Humphrey

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“He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.” — Ralph Fiennes

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“Words derive their power from the original word.” — Meister Eckhart

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“When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It is their attempt to impose their will on the rest of society, particularly on men.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.” — Lord Acton

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“It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.” — Camryn Manheim

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