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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
- Ayn Rand on Power
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 on Power
The only power you have is the word no.
- Frances McDormand on Power
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. on Power
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill on Power
The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
- Joseph Stalin on Power
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.
- James A. Baldwin on Power
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
- Eric Hoffer on Power
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.
- Erich Fromm on Power
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
- Davy Crockett on Power
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Mary Pickford on Power
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
- Andrew Jackson on Power
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
- James Madison on Power
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
- Paul Wellstone on Power
The point of power is always in the present moment.
- Louise L. Hay on Power
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Power
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw on Power
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
- Winston Churchill on Power
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
- Origen on Power
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
- Horace on Power
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
- Augustus Hare on Power
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
- Jonathan Swift on Power
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir on Power
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
- Lao Tzu on Power
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
- Mason Cooley on Power
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill on Power
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
- Jon Meacham on Power
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Power
The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Power
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Jeremy Bentham on Power
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
- Georg Buchner on Power
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Power
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
- James A. Baldwin on Power
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
- Margaret Cho on Power
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
- Jerry Rubin on Power
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
- Milton Friedman on Power
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
- Indira Gandhi on Power
The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
- Charles Evans Hughes on Power
The power which establishes a state is violence the power which maintains it is violence the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.
- Kenneth Kaunda on Power
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
- John Ruskin on Power
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
- Edward Gibbon on Power
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
- Noam Chomsky on Power
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
- Aneurin Bevan on Power
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
- Colin Powell on Power
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
- Walter Scott on Power
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
- Anita Hill on Power
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
- Felix Frankfurter on Power
The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.
- Ron Wyden on Power
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
- George Eliot on Power
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
- Thomas Hobbes on Power

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