“Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late!”
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“How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?”
“Power without abuse loses its charm.”
“The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.”
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
“Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.”
“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.”
“Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.”
“Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.”
“'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.”
“Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.”
“Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.”
“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.”
“Give fools their gold, and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.”
“There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.”
“Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.”
“When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.”
“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.”
“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.”
“I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.”