Quotations About / On: POWER

  • 11.
    The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 6, p. 106, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ, p. 63, trans. by R.J. Hollingdale, Baltimore, Penguin Books (1968). Twilight of the Idols, "What the Germans Lack," section 4 (prepared for publication 1888, published 1889).)
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  • 12.
    With an eye made quiet by the power
    Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
    We see into the life of things.
    (William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, l. 48-50, Lyrical Ballads (1798).)
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  • 13.
    Fight the power that be. Fight the power.
    (Spike Lee (b. 1956), U.S. filmmaker. Theme song in Do The Right Thing (film), directed and co-produced by Spike Lee (1989).)
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  • 14.
    Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
    (Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934), Belgian Situationist philosopher. The Revolution of Everyday Life, ch. 7, sct. 3 (1967, trans. 1983).)
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  • 15.
    The power of lying is much less than the power of "what is not to be discussed."
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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  • 16.
    Type of the modern—emblem of motion and
    power—pulse of the continent,
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. To a Locomotive in Winter (l. 13). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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  • 17.
    Money: power at its most liquid.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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  • 18.
    For also knowledge itself is power.
    (Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Religious Meditations, "Of Heresies," (1597).)
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  • 19.
    Helplessness is a mighty power.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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  • 20.
    Power and speed be hands and feet.
    (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Self-Reliance," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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