Best Their Power Thoughts
232 Their Power quotes by 202 unique authors
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I…
— Zadie Smith
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,…
— Voltaire
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker
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What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.
— Joss Whedon
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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be…
— Howard Zinn
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their…
— Gary Zukav
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
— Abdul Kalam
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Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political…
— Philip K. Dick
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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for…
— Margaret Atwood
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Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision…
— Alice Walker
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all…
— Adolf Hitler
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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
— Henry Miller
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
— Gregory Maguire
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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 man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a…
— Jim Butcher
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
— Voltaire
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Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.
— Honore de Balzac
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Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up…
— Suzanne Collins
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The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection…
— Philip Zimbardo
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While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.
— Alan Moore
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If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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