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Power Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment…
- Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the…
- Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and…
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse…
- The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms…
- Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath…
- Well,’ I said, ‘Paris is old, is many centuries. You feel, in Paris, all the time gone by. That isn’t what you feel in New…
- It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of…
- But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
- To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.
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- 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