#power

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#depository #discretion #enlightened #enough #exercise

Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity. ↗

— Michael Jeffery

#atrocity #collectively #evening #evening news #feeling

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#consultation #country #different #hold #lead

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#feel #funny #i #more #powerful

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#breaking #destroying #devised #different #down

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#great society #move #only #opportunity #powerful

I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are. ↗

— Susan Faludi

#culture #even #feel #great #great power

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

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

I've had women tell me that when their daughters see them taking care of themselves, and being defined from within, and thinking for themselves instead of thinking about that silly culture out there, it's powerful modeling. ↗

— Naomi Judd

#being #care #culture #daughters #defined

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#black-and-white #imagery #powerful #something #strange