I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I am not wrong in the belief that its public funds are more secure than those of all the European powers.
~By Albert Gallatin ~
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
~By Alton Brown ~
'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.
~By George Carey ~
Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.
~By Roger Mudd ~
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
~By John C. Calhoun ~
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
~By Robert Ludlum ~
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
~By Paracelsus ~
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
~By Ken Kesey ~
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
~By Craig T. Nelson ~
Threats without power are like powder without ball.
~By Nathan Bailey ~
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.
~By Henry Miller ~
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
~By Tacitus ~
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
~By Lili Taylor ~
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
~By Andrea Mitchell ~
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
~By W. E. B. Du Bois ~
We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.
~By Sellapan Ramanathan ~
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~By Paul Valery ~
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
~By Blaine Lee ~
A word after a word after a word is power.
~By Margaret Atwood ~
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
~By George Soros ~
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.
~By Josiah Stamp ~
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
~By Jackie Collins ~
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
~By Dora Russell ~
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
~By Robin Morgan ~
I think there's a point at which money, influence, and power become so blinding that people believe they control the world.
~By Iris Sawyer ~
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
~By Thom Yorke ~
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
~By Richard Lugar ~
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
~By Peter Fraser ~
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy.
~By Edward Grey ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
~By Epictetus ~
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
~By Edmund Burke ~
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
~By Amos Oz ~
The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.
~By Fernando Wood ~
When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.
~By Louise Brown ~
Clearly, this Sino-Japanese War of more than four years was a considerable burden on Japan's national power and an obstacle to the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
~By Tojo Hideki ~
In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
~By Joe Simon ~
My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.
~By Robert Baldwin ~
Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
~By John Lukacs ~
Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.
~By Rosario Dawson ~
God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
~By John Newton ~
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
~By John Abizaid ~
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~By Horace Mann ~
I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
The motive power of democracy is love.
~By Henri Bergson ~
I've had more of an opportunity to work with Katie Holmes, which is incredibly enjoyable. I think she is really one of the best actresses on the market right now. She forces you to bring your best stuff to the table, because if you don't, she just completely overpowers you.
~By Joshua Jackson ~
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
~By Omar Bongo ~
I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
~By Peter Singer ~
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
~By Sojourner Truth ~
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
~By Origen ~
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
~By Joseph Howe ~
You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
~By W. Clement Stone ~
I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.
~By Craig McCracken ~
I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.
~By GG Allin ~
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
~By Amy Tan ~
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
~By William Blake ~
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
~By John McDonald ~
There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.
~By James Bovard ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
~By Klaus Kinski ~
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
~By Pierre de Fermat ~
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
~By Anita Roddick ~
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
~By Buffy Sainte-Marie ~
The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.
~By Leon Foucault ~
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.
~By Ray Stannard Baker ~
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
~By Barry Cornwall ~
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
~By Justin Winsor ~
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~By Myriam Miedzian ~
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