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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
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Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase.
View quotes by Eric Clark

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
View quotes by James Fulbright

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
View quotes by Walt Whitman

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
View quotes by Ezra Pound

On fellow Popstars judge Simon Cowell: I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
View quotes by Paula Abdul

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.
View quotes by Herman Melville

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.
View quotes by Herbert Hoover

Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
View quotes by Stanley Kubrick

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
View quotes by Michael Bloomberg

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.
View quotes by Ruth Ginsburg

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance, but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
View quotes by John Galbraith

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
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The four rural counties in the district also received wind and rain damage and experienced power outages affecting thousands of families.
View quotes by Jo Bonner

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

View quotes by Joan Rivers

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
View quotes by Sophocles

I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our Founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
View quotes by Barack Obama

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