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“My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'”
“Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.”
“I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.”
“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”
“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily su...”
“You must lay aside your greed; have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches, if you want them for the sake of your soul, but not i...”
“Just because you have power, doesn't mean you should use it, especially for the wrong reasons.”
“He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.”
“Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
“Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.”
“Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.”
“Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
“Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.”
“People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.”
“Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.”
“The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.”
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Unused power slips imperceptibly into the hands of another.”
