Famous Quotes: Power

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
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In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
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Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
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I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.
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When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
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Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
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I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
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