By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.
If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
