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Power Quotes
"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."
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"Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon."
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent."
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"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
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"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
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"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?..."
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"It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game."
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"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."
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"For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement."
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"Excess of strength alone is proof of strength."
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"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell."
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"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity."
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"God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children."
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
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"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women."
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"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
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"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
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"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it."
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"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."
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous."
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"The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power."
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