No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.