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Power Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that…
- I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
- The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name…
- Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that…
- Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.
- If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power,…
- If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same…
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- 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