Quotes with power-releasing

Quotes 641 till 660 of 963.

  • Noam Chomsky The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • John D. Mcdonald The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Boris Johnson The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Angela Carter The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • David Hume The law always limits every power it gives.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Blaine Lee The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
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  • Jean Rostand The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Carroll Quigley The link between a society, whether it be made up of communities or individuals, and a state is this: Power rests on the ability to satisfy human needs.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • William Hazlitt The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Hermann Hesse The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Pittacus The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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  • Amy Goodman The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
    Amy Goodman
    American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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  • Herbert N. Casson The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • Colin Wilson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Baruch Spinoza The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
    Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Mark Twain The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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