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Power Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
- About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel…
- Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she…
- He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
- Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
More Power Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo