“Character is power.”
— Booker T. Washington
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I know the power obedience has of
“I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.”
— Saint Teresa of Avila
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We have also arranged things so that
“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
— Carl Sagan
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Knowledge is not a passion from without
“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”
— Ralph Cudworth
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
— John Acton
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An alliance with a powerful person is
“An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.”
— Phaedrus
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
— Benito Mussolini
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Never forget that the most powerful force
“Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.”
— Nelson Rockefeller
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War has always been the grand sagacity
“War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is danger from all men. The
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
— John Adams
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The thing is, if you control the
“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.”
— Dan Quayle
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