Famous Quotes: Power

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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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.
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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
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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.
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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
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For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
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Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers.
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Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
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