Usurpation Of Power Quotes

#1. The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Andrew Jackson

#2. I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

Fiona Apple

#3. A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#4. There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator of all things. It is very possible that photography is a trick of the devil and each shot is a sin.

Joan Fontcuberta

#5. I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.

Doug Dorst

#6. -When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship ...
-In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

Suzanne Brockmann

#7. Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#8. The fact-finding mission was now the traditional Washington substitute for policy.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

#10. Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them ... they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

Dan Pearce

#11. The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Robert E.Lee

#12. I was blown away by the control and the range that I was hearing. I'm listening to Pavarotti and thinking, What the hell have I been doing with my voice all these years?

Michael Bolton

#13. I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

Ben Goldacre

#14. Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

Astro Teller

#15. Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot