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Power Quotes by Edward Snowden
- The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude…
- Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they…
- The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take…
- America is a fundamentally good country. We have good people with good values who want to do the right thing. But the structures of power…
- These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
- When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.
- After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo