Power Exercised Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
— Thomas Paine
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Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
— Daniel Schorr
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Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
— Seneca the Younger
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The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,…
— Matthew Arnold
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May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
— James Madison
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
— C.S. Lewis
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity…
— Michel Foucault
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
— William Proxmire
Who Wrote These Power Exercised Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Power Exercised Quotes as follows: