#pow

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#audience #better #doing #i #make

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#bosom #civilized #civilized society #exist #law

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#cannot #costly #depends #enterprising #expensive

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#does #majority #matter #mend #nor

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#considers #else #father #his #husband

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#commit #crime #enough #powerful #state

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#abuse of power #believe #evil #i #i believe

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#been #congress #current #failure #hour

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception. ↗

— Emile Coue

#antagonistic #any #conflict #exception #imagination

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression