Power Quotes
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You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
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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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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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Gollum has a weak personality and isn't able to cope with the power of the ring.
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Her message to women and girls of the world You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. You are more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And it is incumbent upon you to use that power-not only for yourself, but for everyone else around you.
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Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.
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Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.
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You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
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Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
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By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will.
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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.
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Power is always a corrupting influence.
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The balance of power shifts on the Internet to the individual. This is a two-way medium.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.
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I remember when I cut my hair. I used to have hair to my shoulders. Immediately, people said, 'Oh, but that's the power cut. Now she looks like a man.'
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Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.
