961 private quotes tagged power

“The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.” — Carol P. Christ

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“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.” — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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“The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.” — Xun Zi

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“When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.” — Shakti Gawain

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“I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.” — Nadine Gordimer

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“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” — Gloria Steinem

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“You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.” — Black Elk

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“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.” — Herbert Read

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“More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The law always limits every power it gives.” — David Hume

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“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.” — Ice Cube

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“There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.” — Kenny Loggins

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“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.” — George A. Smith

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“Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!” — David O. McKay

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“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.” — Samuel Richardson

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“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” — Pierre de Fermat

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“What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.” — Eric Cantona

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“A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.” — John Kasich

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“Power has to be insecure to be responsive.” — Ralph Nader

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“We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.” — Neville Chamberlain

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“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.” — Anthony Trollope

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“The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?” — Glenn Danzig

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