Power Quotes
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Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
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Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
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What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
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Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.
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Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.
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An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
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History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.
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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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When in doubt, grab power.
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If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
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Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
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In times of happiness we do not begin to perceive the strength of the mighty tenderness which the deep recesses of the heart hold for those we love. We need misfortune and the sense of suffering endured by those for whom we would give our last drop of blood, to learn the power of it.
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In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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Your power comes from the songs.
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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
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It is one broken person talking to another broken person. And there is power in that.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
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America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
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I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
