Power Quotes
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
Katherine Dunn
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The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.
James Monroe
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The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.
Betsy DeVos
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We need more courageous individuals who will defy the structures of power, whether political, economic, or intimate, but we also need it to be safe for people to feel their power and to be able to express their ideas and imagine without fear.
Deeyah Khan
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All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.
Jimmy Iovine
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One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.
Cara Black
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
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People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Jennifer Aniston
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One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Queen Noor of Jordan
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More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.
Peggy Johnson
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We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.
Van Jones
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
Sam Richards
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I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never seen in all my examination of politics so degrading a spectacle as that of all these Liberals turning their coats in unison with their Chief, when they saw the chance to take power.
Pierre Trudeau
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'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
Eddi Reader
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...organized labor...rushes to support the party without demanding a turn away from corporatism toward workers’ needs. This is the logic of the lesser of two evils. It tethers labor to a relentless slide deeper into the corporate power pits year after year.
Ralph Nader
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I think this mass surveillance by the NSA was never about terrorism: It's all about economic spying & social control. It's all about POWER.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
Yoko Ono
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The universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship (angels). Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything.
Lloyd Cutler
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The true simple question of the present dispute is, whether the House of Lords and Court Influence shall predominate over the House of Commons, and annihilate its existence, or whether the House of Commons...shall have power to....regulate the prerogative of the Crown, which was ever ready to seize upon the freedom of the Electors of this country.
Charles James Fox
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Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
David O. McKay
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I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
Gail Carriger
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Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.
Louise Erdrich