Edward Brooke Quotes
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Quotes to Explore
-
Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
-
I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
-
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
-
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
-
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
-
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
-
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
-
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
-
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
-
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
-
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
-
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
-
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
-
The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
-
Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
-
To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies.
-
We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
-
I really believe in the power of music.
-
There are women vain of advantages not connected with their persons, such as birth, rank, and fortune; it is difficult to feel less the dignity of the sex. The origin of all women may be called celestial, for their power is the offspring of the gifts of Nature; by yielding to pride and ambition they soon destroy the magic of their charms.
-
I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
-
Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
-
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
-
I am keen to earn some money.. ..beginning to lose all hope.. .What I see most clearly is that my situation in impossible from every point of view.
-
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
