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Power Quotes
Lines on power, wherever it shows up.
Rather than sticking to one definition, this set moves between the power of computing infrastructure, a hitter's power at the plate, and the power a film has to hold a room the way old storytelling once did. Compare notes on strength and character in our Great page.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
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Inequality saps the economy by draining the buying power of Americans whose incomes have stagnated, forcing them to rely on debt to fund education, housing, and health care.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
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- Nov 07, 2020
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power.
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The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.
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I don't know if I have any particular views about women in positions of power, though I do think it's more difficult for women, particularly in a Medieval setting. They have the additional problem that they're a woman and people don't want them in a position of power in an essentially patriarchal society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like more than to set the police on those who dare to venture into their vast estates.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surplus money allows some people to exercise inordinate power over others: in the workplace; in politics; and above all in the capture, use and destruction of the planet's natural wealth.
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- Nov 07, 2020