Power Quotes
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I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.
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What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?
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No one can deny who you are unless you are, in some way, minimizing the power and the force of your divine substance.
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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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But if he's able to consistently wait on the ball and see it a little longer and have a shorter stroke to the ball, the strikeouts can be cut down without losing his great power.
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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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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
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The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
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Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.
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The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
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The Palestinians fight for their rights and their land using stones and catapults but the Israelis retaliate with disproportional and overwhelming power by using bullets and bombs thus killing so many innocent civilians
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As every advance of Power is useful for war, so war is useful for the advance of power; war is like a sheep-dog harrying the laggard Powers to catch up their smarter fellows in the totalitarian race.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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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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You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and control, structure of governance, social cohesion in states or organizations larger than face-to-face society depends on the nature of the technology of memory - both how it works and what it remembers. In short, what societies value is what they memorize, and how they memorize it, and who has access to its memorized form determines the structure of power that the society represents and acts from.
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I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.
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I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.
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Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."
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Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.
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Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
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Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first.
