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Power Quotes
"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."
121
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
118
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb."
107
"If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid."
96
"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."
95
"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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?..."
87
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power."
81
"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."
80
"I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware."
79
"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."
78
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
73
"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."
71
"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself."
71
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
71
"Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived."
70
"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."
69
"In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning."
67
"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."
66
"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."
64
"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."
63
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
63
"It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives."
63
"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
62
"The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch."
61
"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."
61
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
61
"Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it."
60
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