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Power Quotes by John Berger
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct…
- The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
- Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear…
- Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
- Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...…
- The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems…
- Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has…
- The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within…
- It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about…
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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