Quotes with power

Quotes 721 till 740 of 958.

  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joan Didion The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 57
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Henry Giles The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Carol P. Christ The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Baltasar Gracian The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Michel Foucault The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • John Ruskin The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Milan Kundera The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Burton Richter The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • William James The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • William Penn The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • E. B. White The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Brendan Fraser The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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