“I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.”
— David Attenborough
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“The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.”
— Chanakya
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“If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?”
— Harry Shearer
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“In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.”
— George Mason
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“Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.”
— Honore de Balzac
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“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
— George Washington
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“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
— Salman Rushdie
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“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.”
— John Ruskin
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