Quotes with power

Quotes 861 till 880 of 958.

  • Angelo Scola We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Gloria Steinem We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.
    Guitar magazine July 1999
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Bill Clinton Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bill Rancic Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Robert M. Lindner What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Boris Pasternak What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Michael Ondaatje What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
    The Cat's Table (2011)
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Aristotle What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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