Power Quotes
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.
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“The Gospel, then, is simply the creative power of God applied to men. Any gospel that leaves creation out, or which does not preach the creative power of God, as seen in the things that He has made, and which does not comfort men by that power, calling upon them ever to keep it in mind as their only source of strength, is “another gospel,” which is simply no gospel at all, since there can be no other.”
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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'Do you know that you have caused us more trouble than all the rest of our European allies?' 'I do not doubt it. France is a great power.'
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.
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At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.
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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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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.
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In caving to an extremist minority that represents no one but itself, you acknowledge its power.
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The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader, more universal truth.
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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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As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
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I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging - it's on par with nuclear weapons.
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You can't out-wrestle me. You can't out-strike me. You don't have more power than me.
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There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
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Alan Cranston understood power not as a reflection of status but as a tool with a purpose.
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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.
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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen.
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If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
