Quotes with power

  • The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
  • They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
  • I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
  • There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
  • The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
  • Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women's cosmic sexual power.
  • I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
  • Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
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  • Helen Schucman Dreams show you that you have the power...
    Helen Schucman
    American psychologist
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • James Allen The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Lao-Tzu Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Charles Reade Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
    Charles Reade
    British writer (1814 - 1884)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
    The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Greg Anderson Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Albert Einstein At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • George Orwell A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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