Best Their Power Sayings
232 Their Power quotes by 202 unique authors
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Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power…
— Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.
— L'Wren Scott
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Facing your fears robs them of their power.
— Mark Burnett
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which…
— Edward Bernays
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.
— Mary Cholmondeley
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Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to…
— Alan Keyes
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You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
— Ann Beattie
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As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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God divides the stillness of His omnipresent Oneness into mated pairs, and simultaneously multiplies their power to simulate His omnipotence and omniscience through fast centripetal…
— Walter Russell
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It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door…
— Naomi Klein
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Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?
— James Callaghan
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Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation…
— Samuel P. Huntington
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One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with which and in which they find themselves;…
— Paulo Freire
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be their power to…
— Matt Taibbi
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Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the…
— Moby
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When the world is ruled according to the Way, the ghosts lose their power. The ghosts do not really lose their power, but it is…
— Laozi
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.
— Morgan Llywelyn
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Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a passage from a book slowly…
— Lewis Buzbee
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There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.…
— Lew Wallace
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It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
— Debbie Gibson
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When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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