Power Quotes
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Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
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Through the power of his grace, God can turn around the most devastating sin or failure in our lives.
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Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.
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Your power ends where your fear begins.
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It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.
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There is but one power in Europe, and that is Rothschild.
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The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.
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The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
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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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Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.
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The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
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We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
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I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.
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There were a lot of power plays tonight and we were finally able to get it done ? we'll take it.
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
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Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do.
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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.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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...the world was a place where those who had power could do what they wanted and those without it were the victims. The world would try to make him its victim, so it was always best to strike first.
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Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.
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A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.
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I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.
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We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
