961 private quotes tagged power

“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” — Albert Camus

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“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.” — James Madison

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

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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

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

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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” — Albert Einstein

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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” — Erich Fromm

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.” — David Ogilvy

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“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” — James Madison

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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” — Voltaire

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“Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” — Plutarch

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“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” — Winston Churchill

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“Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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