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3 December 2020 Billy Sunday

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

3 December 2020 Harry Emerson Fosdick

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

3 December 2020 Evel Knievel

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

3 December 2020 Craig Bruce

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

3 December 2020 Og Mandino

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is… the highway to success.

3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich

You can’t trust anybody with power.

3 December 2020 John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

3 December 2020 Martin Scorsese

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

3 December 2020 Dean Koontz

A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

3 December 2020 Zoe Saldana

I’m learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

3 December 2020 Morihei Ueshiba

Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love.

3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

3 December 2020 James Madison

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

3 December 2020 Henry A. Wallace

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

3 December 2020 Ed Koch

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

3 December 2020 Henry George

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

3 December 2020 Emil Zatopek

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

3 December 2020 William Pitt

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

3 December 2020 Aristotle

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

3 December 2020 Cornelius Nepos

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

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