“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”
— Ida Tarbell
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“Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.”
— Mitt Romney
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“Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.”
— Michel Foucault
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“All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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“The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.”
— Anita Hill
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“There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”
— Everett Dirksen
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“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
— Abigail Adams
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“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.”
— James Lovelock
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“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”
— Tyler Perry
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