Power Quotes
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It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse.
Donald Miller -
Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
David Christian
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Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!
Jane Siberry -
The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Friedrich Schiller -
The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.
Thomas Hobbes -
The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.
Derek Fisher -
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon -
As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.
Philip Roth
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Money: power at its most liquid.
Mason Cooley -
Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.
Bruce Kent -
Between death on the field and death by starvation, I do not know that the American people will see any great difference. The end, if successfully reached, would be death in either case. Gentlemen, you have it in your power to kill this government; you have it in your power, by withholding these two bills, to smite the nerve-centers of our Government.
James A. Garfield -
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
Matt Taibbi -
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.
Aristotle -
A king without power is an absurdity.
James Monroe
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If she chuses to set free one or two of my slaves she is to have full power to do so.
Patrick Henry -
Natural gas is an important part of delivering energy, whether you're producing power or other solutions for customers.
Lynn Good -
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Jack Valenti -
I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.
Austin Nichols -
We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
E. Haldeman-Julius -
So while in men’s magazines success is a power tool to get sex and love, and therefore the look of success is crucial, in women’s magazines love and sex are power tools to get success-and therefore both the look of love and the sexual tease/promise are crucial.
Warren Farrell
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When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.
Joel Sternfeld -
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.
David Milne -
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
Abraham Lincoln -
Power is the near neighbour of necessity.
Pythagoras