961 private quotes tagged power

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — John Acton

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“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!” — Samuel Richardson

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“Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.” — Susan Taylor

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“Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.” — Maggie Kuhn

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“Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.” — Dee Dee Myers

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“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” — Joseph Conrad

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“Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.” — Ed Koch

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“Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.” — Christopher Walken

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“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.” — James Lovelock

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“The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.” — Thomas Hobbes

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“The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.” — Willa Cather

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“Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.” — Noam Chomsky

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“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.” — Henri Matisse

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“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.” — Roland Barthes

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“Power is the ability to get things done.” — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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“The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.” — William Booth

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“There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.” — Susan Orlean

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“There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.” — J. William Fulbright

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“The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.” — Noam Chomsky

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“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.” — Laurence Sterne

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“I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.” — Susan Orlean

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“I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.” — Leif Garrett

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“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.” — Robert Collier

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