Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. – Alvin Adams
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. – Andrew Jackson
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. – Jonathan Swift
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. – Theodor Adorno
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. – Henry A. Wallace
If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? – Mary Wollstonecraft
The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. – Michel Foucault
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. – John Stuart Mill
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. – George W. Bush
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. – Simone Weil
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits. – Robert Hall
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. – Theodor Adorno
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. – Eric Hoffer
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. – Paul Ryan
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. – Sitting Bull
I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. – Patricia Cornwell
