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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
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Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
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Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
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Control is the source of strategic power.
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Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
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Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
A wise guy playing the fool to win, Sunday Times, 16 July 2000, p. 17. -
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.
Cosmography (1992)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
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Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
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