#power

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#body #interests #international #long-term #nations

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. ↗

— Robert Caro

#enough #guy #power #see #then

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. ↗

— David Brin

#democracy #empowered #knowledgeable #only #perform

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#late #later #makes #manpower #project

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. ↗

— Andrew Brown

#big #complete #internet #life #people

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#called #crime #day #dr #flint

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#blair #cannot #him #his #lose

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#became #biggest #consumed #fighting #government