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Power Quotes
"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement."
96
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
89
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. "By making him suffer, he said."Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?..."
83
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
78
"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
76
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
74
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
72
"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware."
71
"I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin."
70
"Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor-and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed."
70
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
65
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
64
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
64
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
63
"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
58
"Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived."
58
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
56
"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."
55
"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."
54
"We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect."
54
"The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous."
54
"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
53
"There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens."
53
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
53
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
53
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
52
"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
52
"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
51
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