961 private quotes tagged power

“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” — Eric Hoffer

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“Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.” — David Ogden Stiers

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“The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.” — James A. Baldwin

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“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.” — Herbert Hoover

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“Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.” — Peter Drucker

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“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr

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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.” — Virginia Woolf

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“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.” — Noam Chomsky

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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.” — Marianne Williamson

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“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.” — Robert Downey, Jr.

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“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” — James Allen

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“Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.” — Wole Soyinka

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“Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” — Mao Zedong

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“We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.” — Honore de Balzac

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“All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.” — Malcolm X

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“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.” — Murray Rothbard

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“The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.” — Thomas Huxley

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“Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” — Milton Friedman

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“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.” — Jeff Goodell

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“In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.” — Marc Andreessen

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