Quotes with power-lust

Quotes 861 till 880 of 983.

  • Martin Buber We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Max Lerner We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Joseph Joubert We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • 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.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John D. Mcdonald We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Paine We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
    Dora Russell
     
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • J. William Fulbright We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Richard Dawkins We have the power to turn against our creators.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
    Source: New Hampshire Primary Night (8 Jan. 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • William Gladstone We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Barbara Lee We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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