Quotes with power-lust

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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Matthew Arnold Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Bertrand Russell Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • John Dryden Repentance is but want of power of sin.
    Palamon and Arcite
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Bobby Seale Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That's what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Burt Shavitz Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Carly Fiorina Russia - having sat across the table from Vladimir Putin, it's pretty clear when you meet him that he has an almost limitless ambition for power. And he's been very good at acquiring it - political power, economic power, military power, territorial power.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Myriam Miedzian Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Cormac McCarthy Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 139
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Edgar Quinet Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Section 7 of the Constitution doesn't grant a power for the king to do whatever he wishes.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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