power

"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested."

"We want to take into account the latest debates on the so-called Welfare State, to be found in the documents of the United Nations and of the European Union, in order to avoid sterile imitations and t…"

"He's dangerous because of the power that attaches to the office he holds... because he's so susceptible to powerful, smarter... people. It's very easy to get him to do your bidding. ...e've seen a lot…"

"Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet."

"he King's going to a foreign Power, and casting himself into his hands, absolves the People from their Allegiance. He sent an Ambassador to Rome, received a Nuntio from thence, received a foreign Juri…"

"These rules for symmetry were established by Hermogenes, who was also the first to devise the principal of the pseudodipteral octastyle."

"Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power."

"You can't make rules for the exceptional."

"The main problem in the world is that power, and wealth is in the hands of a few elite."

"Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception."

"The deckhands are in control, and the base have the upper hand over the noble."

"Don't think that I underrate the very great debt we owe to the old diplomacy. Before the new system came into existence, diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were…"

"All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad, or those which tend to evil, till they become your master…"

"More comprehensive process than those of the conscious mind control human destiny."

"The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is…"

"The Blockade Laws are about as rascally an invention as the old Corn Laws. Suppose Tom Sayers lived in a street, and on the opposite side lived a shopkeeper with whom he has been in the habit of deali…"

"Don’t go looking for adventure; you might find it."

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

"Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power."

"Art is no isolated, unconnected, or inexplicable phenomenon. It draws its life from the life of the universe, and with the universe it ascends from epoch to epoch towards the Almighty. It owes its pow…"