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Power Quotes
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
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"The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality."
53
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
46
"The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better."
44
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."
39
"The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged."
38
"Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation."
34
"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives."
33
"Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power."
33
"I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised."
32
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
32
"I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table."
32
"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."
31
"Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds."
30
"There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes."
30
"I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power."
30
"The present U.N. must be annihilated by our power. That is the stage for Communists. We must make a new U.N."
30
"When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage."
30
"I don't need power at the cost of spilled blood."
29
"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
29
"It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship."
29
"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
28
"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."
27
"Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974."
27
"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement."
27
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
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