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Power Quotes
"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting."
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"We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power."
38
"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."
38
"For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power."
38
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
38
"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market."
38
"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
38
"Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States."
38
"If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect."
38
"The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself."
38
"I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society."
38
"Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise."
38
"It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power."
38
"Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think."
38
"Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us."
38
"All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself."
38
"Far too many executives have become more concerned with the "four P's" - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders."
38
"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty."
38
"Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be."
38
"Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established."
38
"It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career."
38
"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
38
"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society."
38
"Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble."
37
"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'"
37
"What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it."
37
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
37
"In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being."
37
"Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power."
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