Power Quotes
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.
Waite Hoyt
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The people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
E. M. Forster -
In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Lloyd Cutler -
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
Bashar al-Assad -
People everywhere look to the United States to use its remarkable power to help lift humanity up and to work for the common good.
Ban Ki-moon -
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle -
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
S. Jay Olshansky -
[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).
Walead Beshty -
Women in Washington - and in positions of power anywhere - should be subjected to the same criticisms and held to the same standards as men. That does not include the assumption that any successful woman has attained her position through flattery, feminine wiles, or her ability to provide maternal comfort to a more powerful man.
Donna Brazile -
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw -
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
Wendell Phillips -
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
Kathleen Turner
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All those who challenge the abuses of power by the prerogative state, like Snowden, who expose the crimes carried out by government, are turned into criminals. Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked that rule, and it is the just that are damned.
Chris Hedges -
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Dave Brubeck -
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
Billy Porter -
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel Gompers -
Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness.
Mary Pilon -
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Edgar Lee Masters -
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces don't weigh in on the political process. In return, Americans have a sacred duty to treat them honorably.
Kathleen Troia McFarland -
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.
Yoko Ono