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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

The great event on Calvary . . . is an eternal reminder to a power drunk generation that love is the most durable power in the world, and that it is at bottom the heartbeat of the moral cosmos. Only through achieving this love can you expect to matriculate into the university of eternal life.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

The heart is not so constituted, and the only way to dispossess it of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one

The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

The importance of a lost romantic vision should not be underestimated. In such a vision is power as well as joy. In it is meaning.Life is flat, barren, zestless, if one can find one's lost vision nowhere.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

The law always limits every power it gives.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

The law has no power over heroes.

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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

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.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

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.

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.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.