#powers

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. ↗

— Beverly Sills

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I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers. ↗

— Albert Gallatin

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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ↗

— Henry George

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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

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Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. ↗

— Henry Miller

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The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. ↗

— Roy Moore

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