Power Quotes - Page 37

• I like the theater, dining and chasing women. Let me put it this way: I am a single, straight billionaire in Manhattan. It's like a wet dream.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, Dining, Manhattan

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• People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

  Felix Dennis

  Happiness, Money, Sex

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.12, Penguin

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• There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.

  William Bennett

  Life, Children, Adults

  William J. Bennett (1993). “Book of Virtues”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men's relations with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Stars, Greatness, Men

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.12, Vintage

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Gambling, Politics, Politician

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• The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Sex, Passion, Feelings

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

  Norman Mailer

  Sex, Powerful, Business

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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• A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Strength, Mom, Mother

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• It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

  Jon Voight

  Country, Winning, America

  "VOIGHT: My concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

  Herodotus

  Men, Suffering, Insight

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• You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

  Cyrus the Great

  Happiness, Army, Views

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations". Book by Tyron Edwards, p. 290, 1908.

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• Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

  William Plomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Creativity

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• Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

  Freda Adler

  Funny, Philosophical, Humor

  "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

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• Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

  Plato

  Life And Love, Confined, Access

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, People, Laughing

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• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Thinking, Divine Right, Growing

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• Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

  Sophocles

  Men, Wind, Sea

  Sophocles (1905). “Tragedies”

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• The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.

  Jon Wynne-Tyson

  People, Ifs

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• God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

  Laurence Overmire

  Fear, Men, Imperfect

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• Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

  Robert Greene

  Fear, Sides, Kind

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• No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Fear, War, Men

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• The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

  Georges Bidault

  Strong, Thinking, Errors

  In Observer 15 July 1962

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• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

  Harry Shearer

  Political, Doe, Politics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way to have power is to take it.

  Boss Tweed

  Political, Politics, Way

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• Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.

  Harold Wilson

  Party, Office, Political

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