Explore authority, influence, and how power is gained, used, and challenged.
"‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’"
"Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We h…"
"First of all, let me say, very shortly, that we have consistently worked with a single mind, with all the earnestness in our power, to preserve peace. The House may be satisfied on that point. We have…"
"According to the ritual of the Romish church, the bells were not only blessed and exorcised, but baptized as those above mentioned, and anointed with holy oil. After these ceremonies had passed it was…"
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"You have spoken much today of my self-sacrifice and devotion to my country. I have heard that kind of speech ever since I came out of jail, but I hear it with embarrassment, with something of pain. Fo…"
"There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inc…"
"If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be inexpensive, too."
"The hegemonic powers also used religion and nationalism to preserve their supremacy. In all parts of Kurdistan, Islam is a state religion used as a tool for controlling the population. Even if these r…"
"Cass gained a lot of strength from her public. Once she was a star, she wasn't afraid of anybody, and certainly not me."
"In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new."
"A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful."
"Does Donald Trump have the temperament to be Commander-in-Chief? Donald Trump can't even handle the rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. He loses his cool at the slightest provocation. When he…"
"I have come out in favor of birth control but sterilization is a crippling of a vital body function."
"The subject is the execution of those great powers on which the welfare of a Nation essentially depends. It must have been the intention of those who gave these powers, to insure, as far as human prud…"
"early every political evil can be found on display in China: slavery, discrimination, religious persecution, xenophobia, tyranny, mass-political indoctrination, colonialism, cultural genocide, and so …"
"Workers now have, through interdependence, enormous negative power to dislocate the system. Workers' control—if it means the power to plan their own work and to hire and fire the immediate plant manag…"
"All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future."
"Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize t…"
"We should be offended when children are denied a proper education. We should be offended when children are told they will spend eternity in hell. We should be offended when medical science, for exampl…"
Authors on power gaining momentum today
Barack Obama
Winston Churchill
Noam Chomsky
Donald Trump
Thomas Jefferson
Warren Farrell
John Mearsheimer
Vladimir Lenin
John Kenneth Galbraith
Theodore Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
Benjamin Disraeli