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Power
«But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.»
«Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy,
Power
| Keywords:
asking, persists, powers, The Powers That Be
«Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.»
Author: Thomas Troward
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
as yet, desired, expectancy, flow, mold, plastic, receptive, substance, undifferentiated
«Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Power,
Society
| Keywords:
corrupts, increases, moral character
«Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not bet»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Power
| Keywords:
concentration, concentration of power, cradled, established church, nursed, political liberty, political machine, preserved