961 private quotes tagged power

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” — Thomas Paine

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“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” — George Orwell

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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” — Aristotle

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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“He who has great power should use it lightly.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” — George Orwell

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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” — George Orwell

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“There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.” — Steven Wright

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn

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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.” — Robert Frost

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“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” — Ronald Reagan

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