Where annual elections end, there slavery begins. . . Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.
Grace is God-given power to live differently.
It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
If you are happier than you have ever been, then your power is increasing. But is it a fast a rate of climb as you would like?
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.
In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by the colonized, is shaken.
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Responsibility without power is a really bad deal.
They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.
A new power is emerging on the world stage born of love not fear