#power

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #china #citizen #effort #equal

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#argument #believe #chinese #confront #course

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. ↗

— Billy West

#kind #like #observation #observer #power

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracy #governmental #governmental power #majority #power

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ↗

— Robert Welch

#bosses #central #central government #class #entirely

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance. ↗

— E. B. White

#adjustment #age #atom #his #man

Power in America today is control of the means of communication. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #communication #control #means #today

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. ↗

— George Whitefield

#all things #create #god #had #his

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you. ↗

— George Whitefield

#brethren #christ #enlarge #feel #heart

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#corny #how #i #into #know