“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.”– John Adams Related Quotes “If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”– Mary Wollstonecraft “I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.”– Paul Wellstone “Beauty attracts us men but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”– Jean Paul