Power Lies Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one…
— Noam Chomsky
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Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.
— Roger McDonald
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The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black…
— Jesse Owens
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The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it…
— Richard Schickel
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Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who…
— Malala Yousafzai
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The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only…
— Naomi Wolf
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Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way
— Mary Slessor
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There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and…
— Clifton Anderson
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Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories,…
— Geoff Ryman
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Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
— Khalil
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Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power…
— Nancy Duarte
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Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work…
— John Polkinghorne
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America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.
— Robert Byrd
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The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others…
— John Hoeven
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The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.…
— Bertrand Russell
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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies…
— R. Scott Bakker
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his…
— Charles Dickens
Who Wrote These Power Lies Quotes
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