"The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them."

Power, Obligation

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Wolf, Lion, Mockery

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Power, Master, Control, Freedom

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Fear, Courage, Caution

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Power, Mind, Heart, Soul, Life

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Power, Gospel, Church, Change

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Power, Knowledge, Control, Books

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Power, Money, Lie, Problem, Life

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Power, Care, Never, Most

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Power, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Power, Being, Miracles

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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

Wisdom

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

Future

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

Man

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

Conscience

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

Politics

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

Nature

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."

Religion

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

"Most powerful is he who never cared for power."

"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind."

"Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy."

"That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof."

"In the state of nature profit is the measure of right."

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion."