Power Quotes
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The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.
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I think something that's really important to me is trying to do what I can from my position of power that comes with having a social media platform to dismantle certain systems that I think are really gross and harmful.
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America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?
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When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
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I do appreciate the '80s as an era, the general sounds and aesthetics of the era. The Cure, that whole kind of image is really kind of amazing, I think. The power ballads and how everything sparkles and words are really dramatic. Huge drums, things like that. I do really find it inspiring.
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Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
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I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
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Solitary confinement has been used extensively, it always has. I was in prison for 44 years; it was a normal part of life - the practice of it. They put you in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, they put you in solitary confinement to protect you from violence or whatever, and they also put you in solitary confinement just to show you who has got the power ... It's not something new; it's just something that nobody really cared about in the past.
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Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.
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The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.
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A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.
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The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.
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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
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In the Senate they have as many power as we decide to grant them, do you understand it? If we don't allow them anything, then they have nothing. That which they call ''power'' is made of shadows
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Sometimes it’s not about speed about power, it’s about up here man points to his head. All these guys are not with me mentally.
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Peace before everything, God before anything, Love before anything, real before everything, Home before any place, shoot before anything, Style and state radiate, Love Power slay the hate.
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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
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I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.
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I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.
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I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.
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Reforming is about curbing government power. It is a self-imposed revolution; it will require real sacrifice, and it will be painful.
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I think my size sometimes catches people off guard, but I don't think size matters when it comes to power. Mechanics and technique and bat speed matter more.
