#power

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#absolute power #against #am #i #i am

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#am #country #duped #exciting #followers

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#does #empowers #knows #manipulates #sort

Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#altogether #apart #axis #cannot #defeat

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed. ↗

— John Tillotson

#highest #least #liberty #most #observed

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#country #important #nuclear #obviously #over

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

#cause #common #common cause #consider #enough

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it. ↗

— William Cobbett

#country #duty #early #early age #every

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#court #directors #east #government #great