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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter

Order is power. – Henri Frederic Amiel

In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim – that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. – George Mason

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. – Mark Zuckerberg

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. – Jerry Rubin

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide. – Ice Cube

Doing the right thing has power. – Laura Linney

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists. – Herbert Read

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens. – Kenny Loggins

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors. – Simon Mainwaring

Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking. – Susan Taylor

Words, without power, is mere philosophy. – Muhammad Iqbal

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. – Neville Chamberlain

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks. – Eric Cantona

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. – Anthony Trollope

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. – Peace Pilgrim

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. – Pierre de Fermat