Power Quotes

Who has it, who wants it, and what happens when it's wielded wisely or poorly.

25234 quotes

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"The power we seek outside ourselves has always lived within."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"The power within you is greater than any external force."
Isabel Allende
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"Power comes from knowing your worth."
Isabel Allende
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"Power corrupts those who forget where they came from."
Ciro Alegría
C
"Power is temporary; legacy is eternal."
Ciro Alegría
M
"Power corrupts those who abuse it."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"Power without responsibility is tyranny."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"Power is the ability to serve others."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"To be a woman is to carry the world on your shoulders with grace."
Gabriela Mistral
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"Power without compassion is tyranny; compassion without power is sentiment."
Gabriela Mistral
"The colonizer's language can become a tool for the colonized to claim their power."
José María Arguedas
"To make art is to insist on your right to exist."
Claudia Llosa
"The invisible architecture of power shapes what we see and cannot see."
Claudia Llosa
"To be indigenous in cinema is to reclaim narrative power."
Claudia Llosa
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"Power is most dangerous when it believes itself to be righteous."
Isabel Allende
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"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."
Jorge Isaacs
J
"Power corrupts when it is not balanced with responsibility."
Jorge Isaacs
M
"The power to change your mind is the power to change your life."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"Power is the ability to say no."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"I have discovered that power is not in the voice that shouts but in the silence that listens."
Pablo Neruda
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"Power without responsibility is tyranny, and tyranny is the death of civilization."
Mario Vargas Llosa
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"Power corrupts, but the desire for power corrupts even more."
Mario Vargas Llosa
"Power belongs to those who refuse to be silenced."
José María Arguedas
"Power over others is slavery to yourself; power with others is freedom."
José María Arguedas
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"Power over others is fleeting; power over oneself is eternal."
Magali Quispe Quispe
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"El poder verdadero reside en ser útil a los demás."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"El poder sin responsabilidad es tiranía."
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"The power to change begins with the choice to try."
Jorge Isaacs
J
"Power without wisdom is tyranny without conscience."
Jorge Isaacs
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"Power without purpose is merely the tyranny of the strong."
Ciro Alegría