Edward Brooke Quotes
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.Edward Brooke
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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.
Dana Spiotta -
I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
Rachel Nichols -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
Garet Garrett -
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
T. C. Boyle
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I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
Sammy Cahn -
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison -
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.
Omar Bongo -
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
Lars von Trier -
Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Harry Browne
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe -
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.
Laura Wasser -
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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
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.
Barbara Lee -
I really believe in the power of music.
Abigail Washburn -
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
Dan Brown
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Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.
Bob Morley -
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
J. J. Abrams -
Im Reiche der Zwecke hat alles entweder einen Preis oder eine Würde. Was einen Preis hat, an dessen Stelle kann auch etwas anderes als Äquivalent gesetzt werden; was dagegen über allen Preis erhaben ist, mithin kein Äquivalent verstattet, das hat eine Würde.
Immanuel Kant -
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Ray Bradbury -
He's always been such a private individual. From what I'm hearing, I can't really comment on anything other than I hope he recovers fully from whatever his health issue is.
Andre Dawson -
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
Edward Brooke