The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? W. E. B. Du Bois
I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. Alice Walker
I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. Paris Hilton
Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear. John Kenneth Galbraith
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. Stendhal
Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them. William Cobbett
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Gandhi
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer
Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it. Rush Limbaugh
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. Amelia Barr
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all. George Santayana
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. Vaclav Havel
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion. Joseph Addison
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Kofi Annan
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. Alvin Adams
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments. Andrew Jackson
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support. Ellen DeGeneres
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. Thomas Aquinas