Power Quotes
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If I can be in a position of power and influence, and be able to make my present better, then I want to do that.
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Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.
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Maybe thermoelectricity will be able to power a tablet someday.
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Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.
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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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The United States must look beyond Mr. Putin. His regime may appear imposing, but it is rotting inside. His Russia is not a great power on par with America. It is a gas station run by a corrupt, autocratic regime.
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
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'The old man forgot one thing. This England of his is Christian and Anglo-Saxon. And so are her corridors of power, and those who stalk them guard them with jealousy and venom.
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
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A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.
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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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You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
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When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.
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Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.
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Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge and practice circulate and take hold. This way of understanding the dispersion of power helps us realize that power is not simply about certain individuals being targeted for death or exclusion by a ruler, but instead about the creation of norms that distribute vulnerability and security.
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
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It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.
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You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Where is democratic process or popular sovereignty for the endangered population? It cannot be "given" or "allocated" by some other power without that same power claiming the right to withdraw what it gives.
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."
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We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
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I think a lot of people have predicted the demise of cash, and they've frequently been wrong. But there's no question that the smartphone is leading to the digitization of money. You really now have all the power of a bank branch in the palm of your hand.
