676 quotes found
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
“Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming pow...”
“America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“With regard to power, women don’t have the vanity men have. They don’t need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Reven...”
“A woman's power source is from the pussy.”
“Don’t you wonder sometimes,” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?”
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure powe...”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.”
“It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.”
“Truth and trust are the means by which civilization holds off barbarism.”
“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.”
“The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitabilit...”
“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative c...”
“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
“Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.”
“Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil...”
