Power Quotes

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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

- Carter G. Woodson

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself. (The Wizard of Oz)

- Frank L. Baum

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

- Soren Kierkegaard

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

- Casey Miller and Kate Swift

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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

- Robin Morgan

Love in organizations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

- Jim Hightower

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

- William Blum

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

- Aldous Huxley

The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.

- Arnold Toynbee

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Wiesel

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow.

- Abraham Lincoln

Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own.

- Dr. Wade Noble

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The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

- Frances Fox Piven

I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

- H. L. Mencken

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

- Oprah Winfrey

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

- Stephen Vincent Benet

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

- Marshall Rosenberg

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

- Jonathan Swift

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

- Barbara de Angelis

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

- Beatrix Potter