Quotes with power-worship

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • M. Rutherford A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Margaret Atwood A word after a word after a word is power.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Robert South Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Dryden All empire is no more than power in trust.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Albert Camus All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Ronald Reagan All the wastes for a year from a nuclear power plant could be stored under a desk
    Burlington Free Press, 15-02-1980
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Francis Thompson All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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