Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
It's possible to paint a monumental picture that's only 10 inches wide, if one has a sense of scale, which is very different from a sense of size.
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.
Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.
To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.
It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.
No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power.
Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.
All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.
The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.
These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
In our natural state, we are glorious beings. In the world of illusion, we are lost and imprisoned, slaves to our appetites and our will to false power.
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this going to take great will power but try.
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.