961 private quotes tagged power

“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” — Benito Mussolini

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“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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“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.” — Doug Coupland

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“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.” — Thurgood Marshall

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“Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.” — Alice Walker

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“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.” — William J. Clinton

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“Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.” — Amy Tan

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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.” — Tom Clancy

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“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.” — Buenaventura Durruti

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“The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.” — Andrew Jackson

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“There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.” — Steve Forbes

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“Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.” — Pete Stark

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“Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.” — John Podhoretz

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“It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.” — Wendell Willkie

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“What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.” — Lucy Powell

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“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.” — Honore de Balzac

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“There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.” — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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“Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.” — Bill O'Reilly

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“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.” — John Adams

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“Power is the great aphrodisiac.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.” — Ani DiFranco

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