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People believe in the power of education to change lives. — Gordon Brown

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe. — Vitali Klitschko

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people instead of an industrial oligarchy — William O. Douglas

There are so few people in the world who have the chance and the power to change it. But we can, — Emma Chase

The power and the danger of magic lie in the people who believe it. — Diana Gabaldon

Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people. — Michael N. Nagler

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you. — Russell Banks

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power. — Tom Shadyac

People have power to make a difference in their lives. — Oprah Winfrey

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power. — Wael Ghonim

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. — DeForest Soaries

Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of passion. — Bee Ridgway

How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in their place. — Cassandra Clare

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. — Don DeLillo

I'm optimistic. I really believe people in power want to do the right thing. — Brigid Schulte

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. — Ted Cruz

People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in. — Alexander Mamut

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people. — Corazon Aquino

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. — Ken Blanchard

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs. — Samantha Power

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. — Matt Blunt

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. — Chris Hedges

There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard. — Harold Klemp

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. — Nas

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people. — Oliver Sacks

The people we meet along life's path have the power to reshape our lives in unimaginable ways. — David B. Dacosta

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power. — Josh Lucas

I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean. — Greg MacGillivray

Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly. — Narendra Modi

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it. — Joe Strummer

Whenever people go out of their way to help other people - there's power and beauty in our diversity. — Michael Franti

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier. — Shinichi Suzuki

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power. — Plato

Bull had been around charisma before. The sense that some people had of moving through their lives in a cloud of likability or power. — James S.A. Corey

Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm. — Bassem Youssef

Elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid ... — Zoe Heller

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control? — James Hillman

There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change. — Ama Ata Aidoo

There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ. — Billy Graham

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. — Victor Hugo

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power. — Alice Walker

As a rule, people tend to forget the most important things in life when money, power and lust are involved. — Cristiane Serruya

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules. — Richelle Mead

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much. — Gregory David Roberts

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Songs remain. They last ... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. — Neil Gaiman

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour. — George Mason

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. — Auliq Ice

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard. — David A. Stewart

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. — Barack Obama

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. — Oliver Stone

A life in which people know that our accomplishments could not have been attained by our own power. A life that brings glory to God in heaven.4 — Francis Chan

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted. — Tim Berners-Lee

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms. — Mark Pellegrino

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked. — Anna Deavere Smith

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. — John Quincy Adams

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power. — Sarah Hall

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live. — Albert Camus

Have you noticed that far too often the best people in the world lack power, — Matthew Quick

The people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. — Jim Butcher

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power. — David Mitchell

And that was how the people of Miaudacas learned that a queen only stays in power for as long as her subjects are afraid of conflict. — Fredrik Backman

I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. — Thomas Friedman

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

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. — Joyce Cary

We need to take on the new media, and in terms of power and public pedagogy, we need to organize a whole range of people outside of the academy. — Henry Giroux

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God. — David Platt

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream. — Julian Castro

hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. — Terry Pratchett

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves. — John Calvin

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

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does. — Gary Zukav

It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. — John Lasseter

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do. — Alexei Navalny

There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers. — Oswald Chambers

people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself — Rupi Kaur

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in. — Anne Perry

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened. — Eoin Colfer

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it. — Jasmine Guy

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic. — Robert Atkins

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small. — Joan Baez

The healing power lies in the encounter with sensitive people; it makes life worth living. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness and peacefulness. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. — William Greider

I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. — Terence McKenna

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous. — Tim Robbins

3Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth. — Anonymous

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead. — Tim O'Brien

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening? — Brandon Sanderson

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Rosa Lee," he said, "with the privilege to vote - to choose - we can change things, even put our own people in power. — Linda Williams Jackson

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people. — William Rawle

Brave people believe in a higher power than themselves. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People respect power, and it comes in many forms, Krav Maga is power, and people will respect you for knowing it — Imi Lichtenfeld

People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. — Zaha Hadid

Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves? — William Powell

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. — Nelson Mandela