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Quotations by Subject: Power (34 quotes)

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Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.: Raymond Lindquist
Customs are more powerful than laws.: The Talmud
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.: Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
The powers that be are ordained of God,: Bible, Romans xiii. 1.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (Attributed)
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It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005

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