“China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her…”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“If we had known we were going to win control of the Senate, we'd have run better candidates”— Bob Dole, edition.cnn.com
“You have a connection to the Divine Mind, the power source of the world. It is called breath.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“The ego has very few arguments that can survive the power of an earnest and heartfelt prayer.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' she has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.”— Abby Wambach, amazon.com
“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people.”— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org
“In Grace’s account, she told Ansari “Let’s relax for a moment, let’s chill,” when she says he went for a condom too early for her comfort. While it may not have been the “absolutely not” or “fuck no” that tweeters the world over seem to scold Grace for not emitting, in millennial parlance, “let’s re…”— Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, jezebel.com
“Owing to pressure from below, the pressure of the masses, the bourgeoisie may sometimes concede certain partial reforms while remaining on the basis of the existing social-economic system. Acting in this way, it calculates that these concessions are necessary in order to preserve its class rule. Thi…”— Joseph Stalin, newstatesman.com
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an indep…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is a strong argument for democracy that governments regulated by principles of accountability, respect for public opinion and the supremacy of just laws are more likely than an all-powerful ruler or ruling class, uninhibited by the need to honour the will of the people, to observe the traditional…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“A sexually active woman is a powerful force. She exudes the scent.”— Liz Tigelaar, Dawn, Frances Conroy, imdb.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Seize him. Cut his throat. Stop. Wait. I've changed my mind. Let him go. Step back three paces. Turn around. Close your eyes. Power... is power.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Cersei Lannister, Lena Headey, imdb.com