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POWER: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? (Unknown Source)
POWER: Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. (Unknown Source)
POWER: We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Unknown Source)
POWER: We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Stewart I. Udall, U.S. politician and later, a federal government official. 1920-2010)
POWER: The big thieves hang the little ones. (Czech proverb)
POWER: Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice. (Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian, 1886-1965)
POWER: No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources. (Marshall Ganz, U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)
POWER: The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin, U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994)
POWER: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, 1942-1970)
POWER: Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1921-1997)
POWER: Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
POWER: Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing. (Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, under whose reign Russia became revitalized and recognized as one of the great powers of Europe., 1729-1796)
POWER: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell, English novelist and essayist, journalist, and critic, whose work focused on democratic socialism. 1903-1950)
POWER: Power tends to connect; absolute power connects absolutely. (John Dalberg-Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)
POWER: A Liberal is a power worshipper without power. (George Orwell, English novelist and essayist, journalist, and critic, whose work focused on democratic socialism. 1903-1950)
POWER: The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. (R.H.S. Crossman, British Labor Party politician, 1907-1974)
POWER: Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)
POWER: Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt, British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1778)
POWER: Patience and gentleness is power. (Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)
POWER: Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt, British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1778)
POWER: I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)
POWER: Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. (Tacitus, Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56-117 A.D. )
POWER: He who has great power should use it lightly. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)
POWER: The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown source)