Power Quotes - Page 37

• It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being made out of green cheese - it does not exist. Powerful states have quite typically considered themselves to be exceptionally magnificent, and the United States is no exception to that. The basis for it is not very substantial to put it politely.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Moon, Green

  Interview with "The Young Turks", October 26, 2010.

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• Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Want, United States

  "Distorted Morality: America’s War on Terror?". Talk at Harvard University, chomsky.info. February 2002.

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• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mean, Responsibility

  Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, November 17, 1946.

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• We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

  Uri Geller

  Life, Real, Years

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• These powerbrokers, which bomb innocent countries and slaughter people, and, you know, pump the food chain full of garbage and just everything else they do, it's probably something fun for them. They really get off on being bad little boys.

  Alex Jones

  Country, Fun, Boys

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• When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Night, Yesterday

  "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967.

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• Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.

  Charles Koch

  Coerce

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• No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society in a beneficial way. On the contrary, big governments are inherently inefficient and harmful.

  Charles Koch

  Powerful, Smart, Government

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• All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, People, Honestly

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.9, Three Rivers Press

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• Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Mean, Lord

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• The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes it makes vast new amounts. Sometimes it makes lesser amounts. The money takes a variety of forms and enters the system in various ways. And the Fed does this through techniques such as open-market operations, changing reserve ratios, and manipulating interest rates, operations that all result in money creation.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Unique, Air

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul (pp. 2-3), September 16, 2009.

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• We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

  Ron Paul

  Money, Real, Talking

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• I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.

  David Rockefeller

  Brother, Real, Years

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.329, Random House

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• There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

  David Rockefeller

  Crazy, Thinking, Issues

  "We the People: A Christian Nation". Book by Richard McKenzie Neal, 2010.

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• Populists believe in conspiracies, and one of the most enduring is that a secret group of international bankers and capitalists, and their minions, control the world's economy. Because of my name and prominence as the head of the Chase for many years, I have earned the distinction of the "conspirator in chief" from these people.

  David Rockefeller

  Believe, Years, Names

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Dream, Time

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• If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Stars, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Nero, Unlimited

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

  J. G. Holland

  Science, Men, Measure Of A Man

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.20

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• We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

  Stewart Udall

  Confused, Greatness, Confusion

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Men

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

  Erich Fromm

  Lust, Weakness, Good And Evil

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.166, Open Road Media

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• The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

  Martin Luther

  Life, Heart, Love Is

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• You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

  Al Capone

  Gun, Kind, Can Do

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Rare Person, Survival

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.67, Hay House, Inc

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