Power Quotes

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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight… — Martin Luther
We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… — Theodore Dreiser
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt
We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement. — Friedrich Nietzsche
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water. — Oscar Wilde
The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a… — Malcolm X
The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will… — Malcolm X
America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the… — Malcolm X
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang… — Malcolm X
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which… — Abraham Lincoln
The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was… — Abraham Lincoln
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is… — Mark Twain
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results… — Thomas Jefferson
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,… — George Washington
This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live… — Noam Chomsky
No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… — Theodore Dreiser
What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen… — Walter Savage Landor
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. — Charles Caleb Colton

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