Germany is one of the medium powers of the world. It is a non-nuclear power. It is in a lower class than the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the United Kingdom and others. – Helmut Schmidt
There’s a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it’s definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep the people in power in power, and I don’t think they should be. – Heather Brooke
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul. – Gilbert Highet
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. – Gerry Spence
We are safe on the rock which is the Savior when we have yielded in faith in Him, have responded to the Holy Spirit’s direction to keep the commandments long enough and faithfully enough that the power of the Atonement has changed our hearts. – Henry B. Eyring
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. – Henry A. Wallace
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. – Henry Giroux
It is by giving our whole hearts to the Master and keeping His commandments that we come to know Him. In time, through the power of the Atonement, our hearts are changed, and we can become like Him. – Henry B. Eyring
I’ve always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that. – Gennifer Flowers
What I’m really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia? – Hans Rosling
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. – Harriet Martineau
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. – Herbert Hoover
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community. – Howard Schultz
I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory. – George William Norris
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. – Honore de Balzac
The one effective method of defending one’s own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy’s air power with the greatest possible speed. – Giulio Douhet
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. – George A. Smith
‘Smart power’ is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict – not just send our military in. – Hillary Clinton
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they’d like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. – Judy Blume
It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West. – James F. Byrnes
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world. – J. William Fulbright
When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences. – Jorge Ramos
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. – John Podhoretz
I lost my mind at 15. I’d been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, ‘This is great!’ Then that was gone. But I was like, ‘Yeah, but I still want that.’ I’d lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid. – Jamie Bell
We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don’t. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line… I don’t mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit. – Jonathan Safran Foer
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. – Jean Baudrillard