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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
Todd Gitlin
Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.
Orson Scott Card
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill
William Shakespeare
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
Colin Powell
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
John Dryden
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
Adam Schiff
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Muhammad Iqbal
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
Catherine the Great
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
James A. Baldwin
I want everybody to be scared to death of us. I don't say that in a bellicose way. I say that in a way that is peaceful, frankly.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
Simone Weil
Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
Benjamin Disraeli
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with our thoughts, what we do with our actions and our interactions with people determines the course of the universe itself.You are not powerless. You are not without power.
Little Crow, From The Gathering
