3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
3 December 2020 Denis Diderot Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
3 December 2020 Sherri Shepherd I am on the power toothbrush train and I’m asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It’s so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
3 December 2020 Simone de Beauvoir All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
3 December 2020 Ayelet Waldman I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.
3 December 2020 Malcom X The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I’ve heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
3 December 2020 Hannah Arendt Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.
3 December 2020 Robin Morgan Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
3 December 2020 William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
3 December 2020 Roseanne Barr The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
3 December 2020 Beatrix Potter All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
