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108 Own Power quotes by 94 unique authors

Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own… — Albert J. Nock
....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and… — Edmund Burke
Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power. — Pierre Omidyar
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert… — Eugen Kogon
The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a… — Marketa Irglova
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is… — Rumi
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession… — Edward Gibbon
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. — Jim Carrey
Have you ever fully realized that life is, after all, merely a series of habits, and that it lies entirely within one's own power to… — Ralph Waldo Trine
The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power. — Frederick Lenz
People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the… — Frederick Lenz
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its… — Vladimir Lenin
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own… — James F. Cooper
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. — Benjamin Disraeli
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own… — Thomas Hobbes
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that. — Rush Limbaugh
Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a… — Dee Dee Myers
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. — Vidal Sassoon
I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is. — Jill Scott
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. — Arnold J. Toynbee
For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual. — Hayley Williams
Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. — George Eliot
I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or… — Jesse Owens

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