Famous Quotes: Power

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
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Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.
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All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
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All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It's nothing new.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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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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What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.
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