Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which... remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not the woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, ...or brother; for any one who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seal...s, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is part of the nature of consciousness, of how the mental apparatus works, that free reason is only a very occasional function ...of people's "thinking" and that much of the process is made of reactions as standardized as those of the keys on a typewriter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I esteem it the happiness of this country that its settlers, whilst they were exploring their granted and natural rights and deter...mining the power of the magistrate, were united by personal affection. Members of a church before whose searching covenant all rank was abolished, they stood in awe of each other, as religious men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, many of them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ...... but the power of the gun was fully as great as represented. The ball at one-fourth mile passed through the largest rails; at one-half mile almost the same.... I think it an excellent arm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have agreed to go into the service for the war ... [feeling] that this was a just and necessary war and that it demanded the who...le power of the country; that I would prefer to go into it if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it, than to live through and after it without taking any part in it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascert...ained--then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The rising power of the United States in world affairs ... requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts... and criticism.... Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »