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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds.

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.