961 private quotes tagged power

“The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.” — Theodor Adorno

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“I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.” — Jill Scott

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“Power is not an institution, and not a structure neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” — Michel Foucault

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“Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.” — Gloria Steinem

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“I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.” — John Quincy Adams

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“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.” — Vaclav Havel

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“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.” — Barbara Kruger

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“I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us.” — Michael J. Fox

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“Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.” — Harry Segall

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“No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.” — John Jay

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“Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.” — Madame de Stael

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“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.” — Andrew Jackson

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“There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.” — Dennis Prager

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“Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.” — Hannah Arendt

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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” — Henry Adams

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“The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.” — Daniel Webster

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“The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.” — Toni Morrison

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“It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.” — Ben Harper

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