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Power Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- Things have no power that humans don't put there.
- If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then…
- Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it…
- After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang.…
- Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.
- Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
- Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it…
- You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich…
- Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you…
- Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and…
- The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
- It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the…
More Power Quotes
- 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