5,584 Quotes About Power
- Author Anne Rice
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One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!
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- Author Sheila Jeffreys
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Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.
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- Author J.K. Rowling
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And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of love, loyalty, and innocence, Voldemort knows and understands nothing. Nothing. That they all have a power beyond his own, a power beyond the reach of any magic, is a truth he has never grasped...
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- Author Greg Hamerton
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Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost
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- Author Joe Abercrombie
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The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...
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- Author Jeremy Bentham
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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- Author Carla Bruni
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I want a man with nuclear power.
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- Author Kim Stanley Robinson
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The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—
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- Author Steve Maraboli
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Understanding the beauty of our humanity unlocks the power of our spirituality.
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