Charles Edison Quotes

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Know
  • Greatest

• An act of unilateral nuclear disarmament by a European power would have a much more lasting impact than all the sanctions under consideration. Sanctions, as we know from the example of Iraq, always affect the least powerful citizens the most.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Impact

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Power
  • Movie
  • Myself

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Power
  • Today
  • Freedom

• There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• A major attack on our cyber systems could shut down our critical infrastructure - financial systems, communications systems, electric grids, power plants, water treatment centers, transportation systems and refineries - that allows us to run our economy and protect the safety of Americans.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Power
  • Water
  • Financial

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Power
  • Exercise

• Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Model
  • Youth
  • Role Model

• But now I discovered the wonderful power of wine. I understood why men become drunkards. For the way it worked on me was not at all that it blotted out these sorrows, but that it made them seem glorious and noble, like sad music, and I somehow great and revered for feeling them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Men

• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Power
  • America
  • Hope

• A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Risk

• A new poll shows that Tiger Woods' popularity has dropped from 85 percent to 33 percent. President Obama's popularity is also at 33 percent, but Tiger had more fun getting there.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Tiger
  • President Obama

• By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Control

• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Power
  • Model