961 private quotes tagged power

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” — David Brinkley

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“Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.” — Cesare Pavese

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“The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.” — Augustus Hare

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“The power of the people and the power of reason are one.” — Georg Buchner

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“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.” — Ron Wyden

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“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.” — Don DeLillo

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“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.” — John Henrik Clarke

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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” — Stendhal

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“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson

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“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” — Felix Frankfurter

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“The greatest power is often simple patience.” — E. Joseph Cossman

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“I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.” — Bob Dylan

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“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” — Stephen Covey

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.” — Barney Frank

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“Power is dangerous unless you have humility.” — Richard J. Daley

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“Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.” — Phillips Brooks

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“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” — Og Mandino

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“People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.” — Don DeLillo

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