Power And Control Quotes - Page 4

• Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.

  Wright Patman

  Wisdom, Hands, People

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• Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

  Alex Ferguson

  Names, People, Advice

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• When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

  Leland Stanford

  Country, Giving, Return

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• Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

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• If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Drug, Abuse

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.121, Dell

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• As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

  John Tanton

  Night, Explosions

  "Arnold’s Language Barrier", www.motherjones.com. September 8, 2003.

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• In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: `To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? ... As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?'

  John Tanton

  Night, Hands, Political

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• Many white people experience themselves as powerless, even in the face of privilege. But the fact is that we all have a sphere of influence, some domain in which we exercise some level of power and control. The task for each of us, White and of color, is to identify what our own sphere of influence is (however large or small) and to consider how it might be used to interrupt the cycle of racism.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Exercise, Color, White

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