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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Edward Gibbon
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham
The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
Kenny Loggins
In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
Orson Scott Card
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Simone Weil
Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
Anon.
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
William Shakespeare
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.
Rob Sheffield
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Eric Hoffer
More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.
Simon Mainwaring
The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing
Blaise Pascal
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip Zimbardo
By time and council do the best we can: The event is never in the power of man.
Herrich
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Christopher Hitchens
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
E. Stanley Jones
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
Dag Hammarskjold
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
