Position Of Power Quotes - Page 2

• It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

  Robert Payne

  Would Be, Garbage, Lawyer

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, Believe, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Young, Threatened

  "Lena Dunham Is Building an Empire". Interview with Ross Mccammon, www.esquire.com. November 13, 2012.

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• If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, People, Abortion

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

  Isabel Allende

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

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  Ram Dass

  Giving Up, Moving, Order

  Ram Dass (1971). “Remember, Now be Here, Now Here be”

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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.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Views, People

  "‘Game Of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Answers Fans’ Questions Live" by Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Ecstatic Love, Idiot

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• What all this tells me is that a large proportion of the people in positions of power across Australia - politicians and media pundits included - just don't consider the beating down of women to be of any consequence. Half the time they won't even acknowledge it, let alone take a stand against it, preferring instead to gaslight women and pretend it's all in their head. Are these the kinds of people we want making decisions for us? The ones who think mockery about women's genitals is bad when it targets no one in particular, but OK when it targets the Prime Minister?

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Thinking, Media

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• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

  C. E. M. Joad

  War, Men, Evil

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• Divine Providence has played a great part in our history. I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose. It is not given to us to know fully what that purpose is, but I think we may be sure of one thing, and that is that our country is intended to do all it can, in cooperating with other nations to help created peace and preserve peace in the world. It is given to defend the spiritual values-the moral code-against the vast forces of evil that seek to destroy them.

  Harry S. Truman

  Spiritual, Country, Thinking

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• Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Racism, Justice

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• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  Ida Tarbell

  Leadership, Peace, Truth

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• Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

  Susan Jeffers

  Pain, Real, Issues

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• Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

  Charles Dance

  People, Want, Influence

  "Game of Thrones, Charles Dance interview: ‘I treat Peter Dinklage appallingly’". Interview with James Lachno, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 31, 2013.

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• There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

  Jess Row

  Men, Black, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Polemics, Wells, Wanted

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

  Mauricio Kagel

  Teacher, School, Giving

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• The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

  Bocafloja

  Country, Latin, Independent

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Latin, Comfort, Position

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• That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

  Michael Emerson

  Moving, Black, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

  John Shelby Spong

  Teacher, School, College

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Able, Fields

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you get talking to people in positions of power, you find that often their worldview is framed either in terms of their disciplinary studies at university and/or the country where they first got interest in development.

  Duncan Green

  Country, Talking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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