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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
- John Perkins
God's grace is at its best in weakness, so we need never fear our weakness. In fact, these weaknesses will determine in what way we shall glorify God for all eternity.
- Mother Angelica
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As they come forth, Lord, to sow, release upon them, Father, the power to get, to create, to receive wealth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Joseph Prince
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
- Frank Herbert
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.
- Boots Riley
No weapon formed against me shall prosper.
- Fred Hammond
In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
- Malcolm X
The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.
- Muqtada al Sadr
As soon as a regular guy like Bill Clinton becomes the president, he wears a mantle of greatness. He's the president.
- Lydia Millet
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
- John Ortberg
Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?
- Ted Deutch