Power Quotes
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Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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All the marvels of nature are glimpses of His divine power and expressions of His love.
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Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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Every power grab is the new base camp for the next power grab.
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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.
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When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
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I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.
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Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.
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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
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I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
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Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
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Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn’t exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn’t possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.
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A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.
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Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
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I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.
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I don't recognize hate, I don't recognize bitterness, I don't recognize jealousy, I don't recognize greed. I don't give them power. They don't exist to me.
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Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.
