Power Quotes
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
John Hanning Speke
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Any new dominant communications medium leads to a new information ecology in society that inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings, wealth, power and influence are distributed and the way collective decisions are made.
Al Gore
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There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
Jenny Han
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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.
Oprah Winfrey
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The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
Lewis H. Lapham
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When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
Carol Roth
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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
Seneca the Younger
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire
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It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.
Michel Foucault
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Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.
Barack Obama
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Synergies are something that the CEO basically has to force to happen, because organizations are, generally, like bodies in motion that tend to stay in motion. It's very hard to get big organizations to change. And it takes really a very powerful mandate to force things to happen.
John C. Malone
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Ariel Dorfman
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Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.
Eldridge Cleaver
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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Denis Kearney
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
