“In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.”
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“The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.”
“The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.”
“During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.”
“I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.”
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
“The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.”
“Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.”
“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.'”
“The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.”
“There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.”
“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.”
“More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.”
“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.”
“Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.”
“Words, without power, is mere philosophy.”
“We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.”
“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.”
“What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.”
“Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.”
“Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.”
“It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.”
“It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?”
“Fight the power that be. Fight the power.”