961 private quotes tagged power

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

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“I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.” — James Madison

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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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“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.” — John F. Kennedy

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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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“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.” — Albert Einstein

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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.” — Erich Fromm

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“The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.” — David Ogilvy

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“Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.” — Samuel Butler

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“Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.” — Blaise Pascal

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“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” — Edmund Burke

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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” — Plutarch

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“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.” — E. B. White

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“Excessive fear is always powerless.” — Aeschylus

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“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.” — Voltaire

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“The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” — James Madison

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