Quotes with power-worship

Quotes 821 till 840 of 1019.

  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ben Schnetzer There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Anthony de Mello These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • John Tillotson They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Bruce Schneier Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Tacitus Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Alexis Carrel Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Edmund Burke Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bo Bennett Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Bryan Adams Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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