Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 261 till 280 of 983.

  • Edmund Burke I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Napoleon I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Busy Philipps I never underestimate the power of hot rollers for your hair and eyelash curlers for your eyelashes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Socrates I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Benito Mussolini I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
    Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Alva Myrdal I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Anthony Wayne I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Toni Morrison I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Stephen Hawking 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
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Barbara Kruger I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bertrand Piccard I'm learning kite surfing. It's a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don't need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Bethany McLean I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Beji Caid Essebsi I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
    Beji Caid Essebsi
    Tunisian politician (1926 - 2019)
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  • Anthony Robbins I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Jimmy Carter I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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