The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
PowerPatriotismSufferingWrongSum
The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.
Edwin Land
PowerYouImportantSureMakeMost
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its unique ability to provide a truly adversarial check on those in power.
Glenn Greenwald
PowerValueMissionInformationSee
The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
Cynthia P. Schneider
PowerSocietyWillTurnOutStreets
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Thomas Aquinas
NaturePowerWomanSeedPerfectSex
I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.
Mark Gatiss
BeautyPowerGreatSurpriseBeliever
A deep-learning system doesn't have any explanatory power.
Geoffrey Hinton
PowerSystemAny
I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.
James Lovelock
PowerMeSurpriseNuclear Power
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.
Eric Hoffer
PowerMenEvilOpinionEarsMalice
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell
PowerHistoryMenDriveReligions
The thing we should all be looking for are people who want to make a difference. I'm a big believer in the Silicon Valley religion of the power of markets. But I also believe in our obligation to give back, and to give back in the way we do business, to create more value than we capture for ourselves.
Tim O'Reilly
BusinessPowerReligionValuePeople
When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
Margaret Stohl
PowerWritingYouMortalityAbout
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
Leonard Boswell
PowerJobIntelligenceBudgetAsking
Once Iraq becomes a nuclear power, the very decision to go to war against it would become a totally different ball game.
Ehud Barak
PowerDecisionWarGameGoBecome
We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
Gloria Steinem
PowerWealthMasculinityNeverUntil
We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.
David Grinspoon
ChangePowerMaturityWorldSociety
Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.
Sander Levin
FamilyLovePowerPowerfulImportant
Power is changing hands, from dying hierarchies to living networks.
Marilyn Ferguson
PowerHandsLivingDyingChanging
I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.
Isaac Hempstead Wright
MusicPowerReadingEnjoyTrying
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
PowerGovernmentGraduationHands
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt
MusicPowerWithoutImprovisation
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
Alexandra Kerry
TruthPowerGreatWordsStronger
I do believe in the power of love.
Timothy Spall
LovePowerBelieve
You can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.
Margrethe Vestager
PowerYouStopOthersAbuseBig
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