Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.