#political power

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness. ↗

— Robert Casey

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The greatest power is not money power, but political power. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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All political power is a trust. ↗

— Charles James Fox

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

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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. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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A cult is a religion with no political power. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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