Quotes with power-worship

Quotes 361 till 380 of 1019.

  • Winston Churchill It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry S. Haskins It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Benjamin Banneker It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race...
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Hans Christian Andersen It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Deens poet and fairy tale writer (1805 - 1875)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Carroll Quigley It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
    "American Opinion, Volume 12" (Robert Welch, Inc., 1969), p. 264. Also in: "Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask" (Western Islands,
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is true that they that have sovereign power may commit iniquity, but not injustice or injury in the proper signification.
    Leviathan (1651) XVIII
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Albert J. Nock It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • David J. Schwartz It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don't worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Alan Cohen It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro It was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social Security is going bankrupt despite 100% enrollment. The reality is that Obama was always destined to hit his required numbers because, after all, he has the power of government to compel action.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Cate Blanchett It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Castle It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Ben Harper It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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