The Corruptions of Our Time, p. 248
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Social thinking dilutes most personal power.”
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Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161

“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.”
Source: On Representative Government (1861), Ch. I: To What Extent Forms of Government Are a Matter of Choice (p. 155)
Context: To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
Source: "Influence, Power, Religion, and the Mechanisms of Social Control," 1999, p. 161

Samuel Gompers, " Not Even Compulsory Benevolence Will Do http://books.google.com/books?id=3LVLAAAAYAAJ&dq=in%20reality%20the%20most%20potent%20and%20the%20most%20direct%20social%20insurance&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q=in%20reality%20the%20most%20potent%20and%20the%20most%20direct%20social%20insurance&f=false." The American Federationist. January 1917, p. 47.
“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

Jussi Halla-aho (2006), published in the blog Scripta Sosiaalidemokraatin selkäranka http://www.halla-aho.com/scripta/sosiaalidemokraatin_selkaranka.html, March 23, 2006
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“Dialogue concentrates meaning; conversation dilutes it.”
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