Power Quotes
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
Martin Jacques
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
Charles Handy
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
Dan Pink
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Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
Franz Grillparzer
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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.
James Comey
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Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Florence Nightingale
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My grandfather raised me believing in the power of youth to change the world.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.
Ralph Ellison
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With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
Jon Batiste
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If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
John Travolta
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
Lee Child
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The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
Charles William Eliot
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It is a political axiom that power follows property.
Aldous Huxley
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The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.
Van Jones
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
L'Wren Scott
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We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
Barack Obama
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Whether we work in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors, International Women's Day is a time for us to think about how we can all step up and do everything in our power to help women make real economic progress.
Belinda Johnson
