Quotes with power

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  • Adrienne Rich Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Aristotle Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Cal Thomas Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • William Proxmire Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
    William Proxmire
    American politician (1915 - 2005)
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  • John Adams Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Hannah Arendt Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Gloria Steinem Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Power has only one duty -to secure the social welfare of the People.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Theodore Harold White Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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  • Malcolm X Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • James F. Byrnes Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • Wendell Phillips Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Napoleon Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jonathan Swift Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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