Power Quotes - Page 5

• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Tyrants, Political

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• In all cultures, the midwife's place is on the threshold of life, where intense human emotions, fear, hope, longing, triumph, and incredible physical power-enable a new human being to emerge. Her vocation is unique.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Life, Hope, Fear

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• The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

  Benjamin Zander

  Inspirational, Music, Motivation

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• If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

  Jake Roberts

  Men, Listening, Speak

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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Courage, Determination, Inspiration

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• The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

  Babatunde Olatunji

  Inspirational, Change, Music

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• Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Strength, Being Strong, Art

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.154, Shambhala Publications

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• Do not be discouraged on account of the greatness of the work; only be humble and faithful. . . . He who scattered Israel has promised to gather them; therefore inasmuch as you are to be instrumental in this great work, He will endow you with power, wisdom, might, and intelligence, and every qualification necessary.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, Faith, God

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• We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Military, Reality

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• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in

  Harry Belafonte

  Inspirational, Change, Differences

  FaceBook post by Harry Belafonte from Aug 09, 2012

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• Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  Wendy Kopp

  Education, Country, Powerful

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Sublime, Canada

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society.

  Marsden Wagner

  Baby, Women, Mean

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Psychics, Creative

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• No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

  Mark Donohue

  Car, Not Good Enough, Racing

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• Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

  Shirin Neshat

  Art, Women, Islamic

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

  Tony Benn

  Exercise, Accountability, Political

  Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, People, Politics

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• When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.

  Caroline Myss

  Powerful, Needs, Approval

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential”, p.33, Harmony

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• The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is any feasible alternative. There is no need for such arbitrary power... Any system which gives so much power and so much discretion to a few men, [so] that mistakes - excusable or not - can have such far reaching effects, is a bad system. It is a bad system to believers in freedom just because it gives a few men such power without any effective check by the body politic - this is the key political argument against an independent central bank.

  Milton Friedman

  Trust, Mistake, Independent

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• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Faith, Forgiveness

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011

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• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Long, Denial, Literature

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

  Oskar Schindler

  Defeat, Schindler's List

  "Schindler's List". Book by Thomas Keneally, Ch. 15., October 18, 1982.

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• I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Night, Fire, Leaving

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.182, Penguin Books India

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• The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Secret, Want, Waste

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