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Order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel on power

In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
George Mason on power

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.
Christopher Nolan on power

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Mark Zuckerberg on power

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett on power

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
Thomas Hobbes on power

I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
Daniel Day-Lewis on power

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Henry Hazlitt on power

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem on power

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
Jerry Rubin on power

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
Ice Cube on power

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
Steve Forbes on power

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
Pete Stark on power

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on power

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison on power

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.
Peace Pilgrim on power

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
Elizabeth Wurtzel on power

Doing the right thing has power.
Laura Linney on power

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
Pat Robertson on power

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read on power