Quotes with power…

Quotes 761 till 780 of 958.

  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Bill McKibben 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.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • John Adams There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Alan Cohen There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James Burnham There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power.
    Source: The Machiavellians p. 280
    James Burnham
    American philosopher and political theorist (1905 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Galsworthy There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Leo Tolstoy There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Epictetus There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Walt Whitman There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ben Schnetzer There's a lot of comedic value to fraternities, but whenever you start messing with power dynamics and you take away consequences, you can tread some dangerous waters.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Tillotson They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Bruce Schneier Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Brenda Ueland Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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