Power & Society Sayings

207 sayings found from the Modern era from 207 authors

The only way to stop the racism and discriminations is to stand up and fight for your rights.

— Rosa Parks Post-1955
War & Conflict

I am not a woman. I am a machine. I am a thinking machine, but I have no feelings.

— Florence Nightingale 1861
Power & Leadership

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

— Albert Schweitzer Unknown
Power & Leadership

I have been in men's prisons and have seen much that is evil and much that is good.

— Helen Keller 1929
Justice & Rights

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

— Emmeline Pankhurst 1913 (approx)
Political

The battle for the civil rights of black people has to be fought by black people themselves.

— Eleanor Roosevelt 1957
War & Conflict

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for the body in the coach.

— Alfred Hitchcock 1963
Power & Leadership

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it goes along, even when the mind wants to wander.

— Stanley Kubrick 1969
Power & Leadership

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

— Charlie Chaplin 1964
Political

I'm not a quitter. I'm a fighter.

— Marilyn Monroe Unknown
War & Conflict

I'm not a quitter. I'm a fighter.

— Audrey Hepburn Unknown
War & Conflict

I hate acting. I hate the whole business.

— Marlon Brando 1980s-1990s
Money & Business

I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1890
Power & Leadership

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

— Alexandre Dumas 1844
War & Conflict

Every day people are being oppressed to the point where they are becoming afraid to talk.

— Lenny Bruce 1964
Political

I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role.

— Neil Armstrong 1970s
Power & Leadership

I am a simple Soviet man. I was born in a simple family, and I have grown up under the Soviet government.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
Political

The lure of the unknown is too strong to resist.

— Amelia Earhart 1930s
Power & Leadership

We are facing a grave emergency. We are being drawn into a war that is not our war.

— Charles Lindbergh 1941
War & Conflict

I have lost all power over words. Can't do a thing with them.

— Virginia Woolf 1940
Power & Leadership
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