Power Quotes
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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.
Jim Parrack
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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.
Boris Pasternak
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When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Alex Berenson
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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
Albert Camus
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
Abraham Lincoln
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Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.
Laura Anne Gilman
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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
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The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward Dahlberg
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
Alexander Hamilton
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Fifty years of anarchy await you, and you will emerge from it only by the power of some dictator who will arise- a true statesman and patriot. O prating people, if you did but know how to act!
Jean-Paul Marat
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Both EarthEcho and Seventh Generation understand that young people have the power to change the world - one home, one school and one community at a time.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
Parker Palmer
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
Anita Hill
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Nature, in providing us with combustibles on all sides, has given us the power to produce, at all times and in all places, heat and the impelling power which is the result of it. To develop this power, to appropriate it to our uses, is the object of heat-engines.
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
