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Let us reject this decree. In matters of conscience the majority has no power.
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. — Ellen G. White
Merle d'Aubigne, History of the Reformation, b. 13, ch. 5. — Ellen G. White
I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.
— Brad Meltzer
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
Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.
— Erich Fromm
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
— Roger Mudd
History is the study of the abuse of power.
— Marty Rubin
We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.
— Dick Cheney
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
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
— John F. Kennedy
The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
— Iqbal Quadir
If history has taught us anything, Arthur muses, it is that men with mustaches must never achieve positions of power.
— Tom Rachman
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
— Edith Hamilton
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.
— John Robbins
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
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
...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.
— Max Weber
Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.
— Daniel Nayeri
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
— Robert Frost
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
The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world.
— Chuck Palahniuk
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
— Thucydides
Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.
— Richard M. Weaver
The story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.
— William J. Federer
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
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women's collective dating history.
— Alice Walsh
Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.
— James Bovard
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
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
In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.
— William J. Clinton
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 to 1783,
— Scott Miller
What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
— Bill Moyers
We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
— Pete Seeger
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
Winston Churchill was an early proponent of eugenic legislation decades before Hitler came to power.
— A.E. Samaan
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
— Will Durant
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.
— Marco Rubio
...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.
— Jeffrey Goldberg
The power of uncovering India's biggest concealment is in your hands.
— Sambhav Ratnakar
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
— Charles Handy
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
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
— Ruth Benedict
When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power.
— Livy
We can and we must build the political power to change the course of history - our survival depends on it.
— Wenonah Hauter
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.
No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.
— A.J. Muste
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
— Bertrand Russell
Those unuttered words of your smile can rewrite the history of this wonderful world.
— Debasish Mridha
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
— Christopher Hitchens
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
— Thomas Sowell
Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.
— Steve Maraboli
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
— Fernand Braudel
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
— Henry James
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.
— Josephine De Beauharnais
Broken:
Never underestimate the power of a shared history. — Karin Slaughter
Never underestimate the power of a shared history. — Karin Slaughter
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
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
No man in the history of baseball had as much power as . No man.
— Mickey Mantle