Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Thomas Hobbes
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I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Nancy Pelosi
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I rise in support of the separation of powers as established by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution. The Constitution clearly delegates the power to deal with criminal matters, like the use of drugs, to the States.
Dana Rohrabacher
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Nas
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
Hanna Rosin
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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet Garrett
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I tend to be a kind of left federalist. There's a value to more power of certain kinds being positioned at a more local level.
Zephyr Teachout
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski
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Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.
Jay McInerney
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Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Thomas Hobbes