"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"...without money you cannot fight money."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

Pericles, Greek Statesman

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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."

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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

Family

"Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like."

Devotion

"Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.What it do when it pissed off? I ast.Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."

Spiritual

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

Creativity

"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

"Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power."

"...without money you cannot fight money."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

"Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law."

Explore more quotes by Alice Walker

"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."

"The Nature of This Flower is to bloom."

"Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like."

"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."

"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."