Power Quotes
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Power is making a statement about who you are.
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In our age of over-sharing, we know everything about everyone else, robbing them of mystery and thus of power.
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The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.
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Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.
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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
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As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.
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America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.
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Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.
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From the summit of power men no longer turn their eyes upward, but begin to look about them. Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
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Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You know, I'm going to laugh and have fun, too, but something has to be said that has some substance, because this is a platform, and the power that we have with words and with this microphone is phenomenal.
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Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
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There's no way that that our military power will not erode if a robust American economic revival is not part of the cards.
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A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.
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Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
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In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.
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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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Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.
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I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.
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There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do...
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Old as the everlasting hills; immovable as the throne of God; and certain as the purposes of eternal power, against all hinderances, and against all delays, and despite all the mutations of human instrumentalities, it is the faith of my soul, that this anti-slavery cause will triumph.
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Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
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I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.
