Power Quotes
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When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
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Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the expansion of industrial power pushed forward by the energy, hope, and thrift of men, and you see the development arrested, diverted, crippled, and defeated by measures which are dictated by military considerations.
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There is no power above people power.
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A government, a regime that is not willing to slaughter large numbers of its own citizens to stay in tyrannical power will lose power.
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You're special, if you have some power in the world. People are looking at you and they think you're special.
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The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!
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Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood.
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
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The Obama administration has already imposed burdensome regulations - for instance, the sprawling Clean Power Plan aimed at wiping out the coal industry - that will raise the cost of energy and put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work.
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Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
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Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.
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Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
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We have something very powerful in our hands with the Internet, and we still don't really understand fully its power.
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Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.
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Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
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The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.
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Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
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We're all working with one power, one law, it's Attraction.
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Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
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While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
