Power Over Others Quotes - Page 2

• I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Victim

  A Left-Handed Commencement Address, delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California

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• The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.

  Robert D. McFadden

  Passion, Men, Years

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• Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

  Matthew Henry

  Able

  Matthew Henry, Leslie F. Church (1992). “The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition”, p.124, Harper Collins

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• Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Power, Men, Folly

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.382, Random House

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• Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

  Frank Herbert

  Soul, Might, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2010). “God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Passion, Successful, Exercise

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.405, Random House

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• Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Animal, Demonstration, Cruelty

  "Q&A With Actor and Activist Ian Somerhalder ( Lost, The Vampire Diaries ) on Social Change and Animal Rights". Quora Interveiw, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2013.

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Godly

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• Trapnest means “The Trapped Den” Once we enter it, we can’t get out by our own means I thought that that name could only come from a man who love having power over other. 

  Ai Yazawa

  Mean, Men, Names

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

  Edward Abbey

  Hero, People, Evil

  "Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast".

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• Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Giving Up

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.74, Penguin

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• This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't it be? Because if this is something we are already supposed to know, then why don't we know it? Why do we chase and scrabble and fight for things to flaunt, why? Why do we reach for power over other people, and through the thin superiority of our possessions, believe we have it? Why do we let money make people bigger, and allow those without it to be made smaller? How did we lose the truth in the frantic, tribal drumbeat of more, more, more?

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Fighting, Simple

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Humility, Exercise, Power

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.416, Penguin

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• The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

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• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  Francis Bacon

  Power, Men, Self

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.459

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• These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Persecutors may act grandiose and self-righteous to mask their own insecurity.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Self, Views

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• Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Stupid, Smart, Feelings

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". September 19, 2008.

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• But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

  Glenn Reynolds

  White, People, Diversity

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Men, Mind

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• If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

  Jason Segel

  Achievement, Needs, Rich

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Real magic is not about gaining power over others: it is about gaining power over yourself.

  Rosemary Ellen Guiley

  Real, Over You, Magic

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