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• In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about… — Robert Caro
• Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and… — Leo Tolstoy
• Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is… — Allan Bloom
• The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots… — Saul Alinsky
• One cannot hold power and not use it. — L. Ron Hubbard
• The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for… — Bill Mollison
• In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to… — Leo Tolstoy
• The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep… — Gerry Spence
• As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise? — William A. Dembski
• Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of… — Henry Giroux
• Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman
• To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those… — Alfred de Vigny

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