The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Milan Kundera
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. – Maggie Kuhn
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. – Wendell Phillips
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. – Charles de Gaulle
To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. – George MacDonald
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. – Oriana Fallaci
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand. – Louise Slaughter
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. – John Podhoretz
You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power. – John Podhoretz
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. – Evel Knievel
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. – Pierre Corneille
Hurry, conscious younger people! Get to power quickly so political decisions can be based on the greater good for all rather than the greater gain for few. Hurry, before it is too late! – Jane Siberry
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself? – Francois Rabelais
Power without abuse loses its charm. – Paul Valery
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. – Origen
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. – Laurence Sterne
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge
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. – Paul Wellstone
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. – Stokely Carmichael
