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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use. — Roger Scruton

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. — Roger Mudd

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. — Milton Friedman

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history. — Thuy Trang

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. — Adolf Hitler

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history. — Anselm Kiefer

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. — Adolf Hitler

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. — Claudio Hummes

Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives. — Teresa Mummert

The United Staes had never in its history intervened to stop genocide and had in fact rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred, — Samantha Power

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. — Bill Moyers

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It's also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet. — David Helvarg

The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history. — Cate Blanchett

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?' — David Letterman

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active. — Abigail Adams

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world. — Heraclitus

A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war. — Henry Kissinger

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history. — Max Weber

Information is power, and modern information technology is spreading information more widely than ever before in history. — Joseph S. Nye Jr.

Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons. — Kris Waldherr

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. — Albert Camus

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government. — Lowell P. Weicker Jr.

We can and we must build the political power to change the course of history - our survival depends on it. — Wenonah Hauter

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey. — C. Wright Mills

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. — New York Times

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art. — Peter Weiss

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. — Marco Rubio

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. — George Carlin

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia. — George Ayittey