3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
3 December 2020 Salman Rushdie What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
3 December 2020 Louis C. K. Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it’s really like magic because you transform reality for people.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
3 December 2020 Louise Slaughter This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.
3 December 2020 Ayelet Waldman I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Kaunda The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
3 December 2020 Nick Rahall Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs – and we do so through the power of prayer.
3 December 2020 Anthony Trollope Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
3 December 2020 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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.
3 December 2020 Huey Newton Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.
3 December 2020 Michael Ende 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.
3 December 2020 Rob Sheffield It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules – they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn’t play power chords, they probably couldn’t even spell ‘spandex.’ All they had was songs.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Durrenmatt A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
3 December 2020 John Adams Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
3 December 2020 Barbara Kruger I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
3 December 2020 A. J. P. Taylor In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
3 December 2020 Ralph Nader A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
3 December 2020 Ralph Fiennes He’s really sort of the devil. He’s completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It’s about power with Voldemort. It’s an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
3 December 2020 Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
3 December 2020 Robert Downey, Jr. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
3 December 2020 Christopher Walken Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.
