Power Quotes
– Noam Chomsky
– Plato
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– Reinhold Niebuhr
For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.
– Ron Kind
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– Simone Weil
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
– Tom Hanks
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– William Moulton Marston
– Wendell Phillips
– Christopher Walken
– Deborah Tannen
– Barbara Corcoran
– William Plomer
– Benjamin Disraeli
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
– Ai Weiwei
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– Mark Zuckerberg
– Alan Watts
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– Joshua Chamberlain
Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.
– Joan Jett
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– Huey Newton
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.
– Dee Dee Myers
– Peace Pilgrim
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
– John Adams
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– Harry Segall
– Toni Morrison
– Charles Babbage
– Paul Ryan
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– Adam Schiff
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
– Black Elk
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– Pierre Corneille
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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– Friedrich Durrenmatt
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
– John Acton
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– Henry B. Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
– John Adams
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– Saul Alinsky
Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.
– Tori Amos
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