States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people.
Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.
People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their warmth.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camoufl...
... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
