Power Quotes
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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.
William Blake
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall - like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.
Barack Obama
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
Charlize Theron
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I have no wings, but still I fly in the sky; I have no magical power, yet like magic I journey throughout realms of illusory display, here and there, in nine directions, exploring the connections of my karma.
Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited gestures, the Americans have treated it like one. Their policy has been one of encirclement.
Martin Jacques
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We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.
Nalini Singh
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I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
Patrisse Cullors
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There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
Bartholomew Roberts
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I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking out for me. I've definitely had angels that have either guided me or helped me through moments in my life, without a doubt.
Christian Slater
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You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
Robert Farrell Smith
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
Ben Okri
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We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.
Babatunde Fashola
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People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.
Jason Statham
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Buenaventura Durruti
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To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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God himself is increasing and progressing in knowledge, power, and dominion, and will do so, worlds without end.
Brigham Young
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Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
Yaron Brook
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I like to hunt. We went to a nuclear power and hunted in the woods next to it. I got a 34-point rabbit in there. We always go at night. It's easier. All the critters glow in the dark out there.
Larry the Cable Guy
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Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Thomas Hobbes
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We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
Maria Cantwell
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Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.
Thomas Mitchell Morris
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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
Claire Tomalin