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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had very strict parents. My two brothers were power and freedom. I was powerlessness and seclusion.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
- Ought
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
- White
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020