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Quotes About Power

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.
~ Lu Xun
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.
~ Confucius
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
~ Frank Herbert
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
~ Salman Khan
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.
~ Edward Kennedy
People who build hope into their own lives and who share hope with others become powerful people.
~ Zig Ziglar
Hope is a force of nature. Don't let anyone tell you different.
~ Jim Butcher, Changes
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
~ Bob Dylan
If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
~ George Orwell
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.
~ Jim Carrey
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
~ G. K. Chesterton
From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Use your power to do whatever it takes to secure for humankind an enduring place on this little blue speck in the universe - our only hope.
~ Sylvia Earle
Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of.
~ Nelson Mandela
Hope can make people do terrible things.
~ Tahereh Mafi
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.
~ Erik Naggum
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.
~ Condoleezza Rice
I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.
~ Lauren Kate
Hope is the leash of submission.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.
~ Indira Gandhi
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
~ Winston Churchill
The most powerful weapon is hope.
~ Juliet Marillier
The Hulk is like a haiku; you've got to find just the right words. I think, and I hope, we did that with The Avengers.
~ Joss Whedon