Power Quotes

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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the… — Malcolm X
A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior… — Alexander Pope
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I… — Clyde Tombaugh
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. — Henry Adams
Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their… — Marcel Proust
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. — Thomas Browne
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its… — Cesar Chavez
Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle. — Cesar Chavez
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be… — Puff Daddy
I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must… — George W. Bush
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and… — Abraham Lincoln
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. — William J. Clinton
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star… — E. M. Forster
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… — Elizabeth Bowen
Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why. — William Hazlitt
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. — James Russell Lowell

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