961 private quotes tagged power

“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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“The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.” — Spiro T. Agnew

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“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” — David Brin

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“Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik

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“Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.” — William Gaddis

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“Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.” — Black Elk

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“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.” — J. G. Holland

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“We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.” — Jean de la Bruyere

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“To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.” — Black Elk

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“The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.” — Jerry Rubin

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“I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.” — Black Elk

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“Order is power.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.” — Davy Crockett

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“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.” — Henry George

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“The point of power is always in the present moment.” — Louise L. Hay

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“During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'” — Pat Robertson

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“In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.” — George Mason

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“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” — Beatrix Potter

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“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.” — Christopher Nolan

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“The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.” — Dan Quayle

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“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.” — Joseph Prince

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