#power

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#silence #ultimate #weapon

I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers. ↗

— Uri Geller

#am #appliances #broken #catalyst #house

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. ↗

— Jean Genet

#end #gun #image #may #power

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

#civilization #destroyed #distribution #every #power

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

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My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions. ↗

— Jim Goad

#good intentions #hatred #intentions #more #powerful

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#activity #affection #any #appropriate #blessedness

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant