The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.
The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Within you exists the same power that rests with the Universe, for you are not separate from the source you pray to.
Authentic kindness has a power greater than rock, paper and scissors combined.
When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence
