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The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
Craig T. Nelson
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Noam Chomsky
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Honore de Balzac
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
Alvin Adams
There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
Thomas Frank
Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
Bryant H. McGill
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
Alice Walker
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Jean de La Fontaine
A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else.
Pierre Corneille
It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Pat Robertson
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Lewis Mumford
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
Michael Bloomberg
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube
