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  • Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  • Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

    Power   Faces   Steps  
    "Malcolm X Speaks". Book by George Breitman, 1965.
  • [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

  • Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

    Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.
  • During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

    Fear   War   Men  
    Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 13 (1651)
  • To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'

    Writing   Voice   Names  
    Rebecca McClanahan (2001). “Write Your Heart Out”, Writer's Digest Books
  • Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

    "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

    "Historical Essays and Studies". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, oll.libertyfund.org. 1907.
  • Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

    Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press
  • Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

  • To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

    Pain   Real   Power  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187
  • Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

    "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism". Book by Peter Marshall (p. 47), 1992.
  • Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

    Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr
  • Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

    Mean   Power   Government  
    Jacques Maritain (1951). “Man and the State”, p.126, CUA Press
  • My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

    Power   Hands   Essence  
    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  • I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

    Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 11 (1651)
  • Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

    Freedom   Power   Tyrants  
    Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857
  • My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

    Power   People   Watches  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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