961 private quotes tagged power

“Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.” — Thomas Fuller

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“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.” — George Orwell

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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” — George Orwell

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn

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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” — Winston Churchill

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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” — Walt Whitman

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“Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.” — Thomas Paine

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” — Aristotle

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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” — Albert Camus

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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” — Aristotle

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