We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
~By George Pataki ~
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
~By Joseph de Maistre ~
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.
~By John Henry Newman ~
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
~By Henri Coanda ~
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
~By Paul Hawken ~
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
~By John Cheever ~
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~By Russell Baker ~
Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.
~By Michael Moorer ~
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
~By Paul Engle ~
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
~By Milton Friedman ~
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
~By Jon Corzine ~
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
~By Allan Sloan ~
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
~By Epicurus ~
Power is the by-product of understanding.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
~By Carnie Wilson ~
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
~By Carl Jung ~
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
~By Charles Schumer ~
We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
~By Alan Paton ~
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
~By Francis Wright ~
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
~By Peter Garrett ~
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.
~By Romano Prodi ~
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
~By Walter Scott ~
I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.
~By Julie Christie ~
We are ever mindful the risks our troops face every day and the sacrifices made by the families and the communities that support them as those who have been removed from power seek to delay their inevitable defeat.
~By John Warner ~
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.
~By Greg Walden ~
Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.
~By George W. Bush ~
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.
~By Evan Thomas ~
From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
The way to have power is to take it.
~By Boss Tweed ~
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.
~By Robert Frost ~
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.
~By Kathy Acker ~
If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?"
~By Josiah Strong ~
Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.
~By John Hoeven ~
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.
~By Mike Figgis ~
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
~By Danny Glover ~
You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
~By Kathleen Hanna ~
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
~By James Bovard ~
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
~By John Burns ~
I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.
~By Jane Elliot ~
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
~By Irving Berlin ~
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
~By John Acton ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
~By Ed Miliband ~
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
~By Stewart Udall ~
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
~By Tillie Olsen ~
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
~By Black Elk ~
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~By Allen Klein ~
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
~By Steven Levy ~
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
~By Robert Conklin ~
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
~By Warren Farrell ~
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
~By Colin Wilson ~
Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.
~By William H. Macy ~
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
~By Yoko Ono ~
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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