Power Quotes
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Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.
George William Foote
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A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.
Ernest Holmes
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When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
Katherine Jackson
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As I have often written, power is the fundamental ingredient of the human experience. Every action in life, every thought, every choice we make-even down to what we wear and whether we are seating in first class or coach-represents a negotiation of power somewhere on the scale of power that constitutes life.
Caroline Myss
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The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.
Kathryn Kuhlman
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
George Stillman Hillard
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Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.
Rene Descartes
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The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.
Barbara Marciniak
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The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.
Josiah Warren
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Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.
Haaz Sleiman
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It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.
Judith Butler