Famous Quotes: Power

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
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Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get a calculator out saying, 'Am I going to get to power?' You get propelled forward by idealism.
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My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
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At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before.
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