Quotes with power

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  • Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • William Shakespeare The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Angelina Grimké The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Roger Bannister The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed.
    Roger Bannister
    English athlete and physician (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
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    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Berger The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Vaclav Havel The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Lord George Byron The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Bellamy Young The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
    Bellamy Young
    American actress and singer (1970 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Ken Blanchard The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
    Ken Blanchard
    American writer
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  • Bertrand Russell The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Stuart Mill The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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