3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
3 December 2020 John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
3 December 2020 Andrew Young Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
3 December 2020 William Hazlitt The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The ‘anti-globalisation movement’ is the most significant proponent of globalisation – but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
3 December 2020 Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
3 December 2020 Spiro T. Agnew The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.
3 December 2020 J. William Fulbright There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem Men should think twice before making widow hood woman’s only path to power.
3 December 2020 John Jay No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
3 December 2020 Madame de Stael Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
3 December 2020 Jeanne Moreau When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can’t ever start a work of art.
3 December 2020 Mark Zuckerberg When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
3 December 2020 Rick Warren In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You’re not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
3 December 2020 Mason Cooley The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
3 December 2020 Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
3 December 2020 Steven Wright There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.
3 December 2020 Dan Quayle The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
3 December 2020 James Madison Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
3 December 2020 Anita Hill The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
3 December 2020 Saint Basil Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
3 December 2020 Vaclav Havel The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
