Usurped Power Quotes

#1. Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Freda Adler

#2. Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

William Godwin

#3. For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

Henry Fielding

#4. Coming into Los Angeles, bringing in a couple of keys. Don't touch my bags, if you please Mr. Customs man.

Arlo Guthrie

#5. Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us.

Sarah Ruhl

#6. I love waking up to the sound of babies laughing. Unless it is at 1 am and you live alone...

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#7. As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.

Irvin S. Cobb

#8. Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#9. [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

Chuck Smith

#10. I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

Kevin Smith

#11. You think you're the only one?" Theo said. "Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

Natasha Friend

#12. The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.

John Adams

#13. Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Jack Welch

#14. It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Bernie Sanders