I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.