Quotes with power-worship

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1019.

  • George Eliot The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bob Schaffer The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Vaclav Havel The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joan Didion The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 57
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Giles The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Carol P. Christ The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Baltasar Gracian The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Michel Foucault The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Milan Kundera The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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