Power Quotes
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Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.
Michael Foot
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
Georg Buchner
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
Kevin Kelly
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Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
Boyd Rice
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I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.
Clara Barton
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As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.
J. G. A. Pocock
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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.
Radhika Apte
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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
John Adams
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O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.
Pablo Neruda
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A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.
Matthew Desmond
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If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.
David Mitchell
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More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Haig
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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
Dennis Prager
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There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
Ben Hopkins
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The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Katharine Graham
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In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.
Colin Wilson