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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
– Edward Gibbon
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The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
– Jerry Rubin
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The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
– Georg Buchner
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The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
– Margaret Cho
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The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
– Jeremy Bentham
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
– W. E. B. Du Bois
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The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
– Mason Cooley
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The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
– Jon Meacham
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
– Jonathan Swift
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
– Origen
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
– Horace
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The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
– Joseph Stalin
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
– John Stuart Mill
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The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
– John Stuart Mill
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The only power you have is the word no.
– Frances McDormand
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The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.
– Susan B. Anthony
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The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
– James Lovelock
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
– Thomas Hobbes
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The most impactful way consumers can assert their power is to become mindful shoppers, giving their dollars only to socially responsible companies. In today's world of social media and smart phones, this is easy to do.
– Simon Mainwaring
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The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
– Wilson Mizner
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
– Alice Walker
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The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
– Malcolm X
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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
– William Hazlitt
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The law always limits every power it gives.
– David Hume
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The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
– Tom Stoppard
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
– Walter Annenberg
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
– Edmund Burke
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
– Theodor Adorno
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
– Bertrand Russell
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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
– Charles Hodge
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The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.
– Chanakya
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
– John Maynard Keynes
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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
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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
– Xun Zi
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The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
– Jeff Goodell
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The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
– John Podhoretz
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The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
– George W. Bush
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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.
– Jon Meacham
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The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
– Paul Wellstone
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The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
– Spiro T. Agnew
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The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
– Theodor Adorno
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
– Noam Chomsky
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Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.
– Jonathan Sacks
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
– Ed Koch
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Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
– Charlize Theron
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
– Henry Adams
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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
– Benjamin F. Wade
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Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
– Madame de Stael
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
– Hannah Arendt
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
– Clint Eastwood
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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
– Richard Dawkins
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Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
– Ron Wyden
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Prayer is mans greatest power!
– W. Clement Stone
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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
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
– John Henrik Clarke
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Power without abuse loses its charm.
– Paul Valery
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
– Maggie Kuhn
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
– John Acton
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
– Charles De Secondat
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
– Samuel Johnson
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Power is paradoxical.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Power is the ability to get things done.
– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
– Friedrich Schiller
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Power is not alluring to pure minds.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
– Jonathan Swift
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
– George Orwell
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
– Wole Soyinka
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Power is action the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
– Honore de Balzac
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
– Ralph Nader
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
– George A. Smith
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
– Gloria Steinem
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
– Denis Diderot
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
– Robert Collier
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
– William James
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Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
– Paul Harris
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People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
– Jennifer Aniston
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People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
– Don DeLillo
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
– Don DeLillo
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People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
– Imran Khan
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.
– David Frost
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
– George A. Smith
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
– Thomas Jefferson
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
– Dag Hammarskjold
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One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
– Jeff Goodell
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Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
– Virginia Woolf
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
– Samuel Richardson
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Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
– Jeff Goodell
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
– Maimonides
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Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
– John F. Kennedy
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
– Michael Bloomberg
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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
– John Jay Hooker
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No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.
– Allen Klein
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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