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Power Quotes by Robert Caro
- In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the…
- You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
- We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's…
- I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a…
- I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man…
- Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he…
- When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
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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