Quote by Isabel Allende
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, an

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende

Other quotes by Isabel Allende

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. – Isabel Allende

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Death
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldnt find a place for myself, for years and years. – Isabel Allende

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Experience
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Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. – Isabel Allende

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Women
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. – John Dryden

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Fear

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. – Thomas Friedman

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Fear

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love. – Mel Brooks

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Fear

Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007

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Fear

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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Fear

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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Age

I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

I dont want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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Imagination