Samantha Power Quotes

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Samantha Power

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 21, 1970

Topics

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I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

Jessie James Decker

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The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

Jo Durie

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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Anatole France

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You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

Sid Waddell

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Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

Maryanne Trump Barry

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When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

Jason Isbell

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To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.

Donatella Versace

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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

William Godwin

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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

Philip K. Dick

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German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

Suzanne Fields

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The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

Peter Orszag

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