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Power Quotes by Tony Benn
- Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money…
- If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where…
- I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and…
- Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside…
- The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it
- No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands.…
- The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of…
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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