#political power

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

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The greatest power is not money power, but political power. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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All political power is a trust. ↗

— Charles James Fox

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A cult is a religion with no political power. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. ↗

— Plato

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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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