Power Quotes - Page 36

• I have more influence now than when I had the power.

  Gough Whitlam

  Leadership, Memorable, Political

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Benefits

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Inspirational Life, President, Fit

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• Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

  Martin Buber

  Stress, Under Stress

  "Paths in Utopia".

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• When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Success, Inspiration

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I think that the celebrity is a really important thing, because we have the voice that's recognizable, that can educate people to make a difference and empower them to make a difference, and to also get things in motion with the people in charge that can effect change.

  Alyssa Milano

  Thinking, Voice, Differences

  "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. November 29, 2003.

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• A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

  Carol Bellamy

  Children, Powerful, Rights

  "Child abuse and exploitation still a grim reality". Interview with Kanaha Sabapathy, www.radioaustralia.net.au. March 19, 2012.

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• School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

  Lauren Bush

  Children, School, Kids

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• I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have. I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF.

  Danny Kaye

  Beautiful, Country, Powerful

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• ...ordinary men and women may often feel unmotivated to exert their citizenship, either because they cannot tell the difference between the different alternatives, or because they have lost faith in the political classes, or because they feel that the really important issues are not in their power to decide.

  Patricio Aylwin

  Men, Issues, Class

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• Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.

  Andre Maurois

  Attitude, Mind, Body

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• People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Law, People

  Letter to Charles James Fox, 8 October 1777, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 3 (1961)

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• Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

  Andrew Jackson

  Pregnancy, Government, Political

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.197

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• No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Long, Safe

  Samuel Johnson (1966). “Johnsonian miscellanies”, Constable

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• Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

  Jacques Maritain

  Mean, Government, Two

  Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press

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• The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Love, Covenant, Fruit

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• Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Focus, Genius

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Dust, Shining

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Powerful, Practice, Agriculture

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

  Conrad Black

  Powerful, Exercise, Men

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• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Roles, Gains, United States

  "Afghanistan in the '80s was superpowers' battle over Eurasia - Brzezinski". The RT Interview, www.rt.com. September 21, 2010.

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• This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Pride, Oil

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• The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else in the face, and let your grandchildren pay for it. That simple principle predicts almost everything that's happening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Simple, Grandchildren

  Interview by Steve Scher on KUOW-FM 94.9, 2004.

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• The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Acquiescence, News, Danger

  Noam Chomsky (2015). “Because We Say So”, p.108, City Lights Books

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