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Tag: Power

3 December 2020 John Mayer

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

3 December 2020 Plato

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

3 December 2020 Donald Trump

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

3 December 2020 Dalai Lama

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

3 December 2020 Nelson Rockefeller

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover

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.

3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

3 December 2020 Mariska Hargitay

It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard

Back in the East you can’t do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg

It’s easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

3 December 2020 Sojourner Truth

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

3 December 2020 George Meredith

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

3 December 2020 Murray Rothbard

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.

3 December 2020 Robert Staughton Lynd

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

3 December 2020 Leif Garrett

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

3 December 2020 Indira Gandhi

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

3 December 2020 George Orwell

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

3 December 2020 Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can’t control.

3 December 2020 Reinhold Niebuhr

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.

3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

3 December 2020 George Washington

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

3 December 2020 Anthony J. D'Angelo

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

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