3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
3 December 2020 Henry Hazlitt The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
3 December 2020 Tom Stoppard The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
3 December 2020 Barney Frank Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
3 December 2020 Henri Matisse A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
3 December 2020 Eric Cantor Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money – especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that’s why we lost.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
3 December 2020 George W. Bush The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes 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.
3 December 2020 Billy Graham When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
3 December 2020 Malcolm X Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
3 December 2020 David Hume The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
3 December 2020 Voltaire Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
