Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
~By Bo Bennett ~
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
~By Jim Garrison ~
We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
~By Harold Wilson ~
All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
~By William Wordsworth ~
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
~By William Godwin ~
The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
~By Stephen Harper ~
I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
~By Claudio Hummes ~
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
~By Ed Miliband ~
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
~By Gilbert Highet ~
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.
~By Aleksandr Lebed ~
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
~By Eminem ~
I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.
~By Monica Lewinsky ~
I believe in the power of weakness.
~By Pat Buckley ~
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 ~
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
~By Steven Bochco ~
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 ~
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?
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
The word of the mouth is a very powerful thing and you can say something about someone that is not necessarily true, but people will believe it and it will become a constant reminder and every time that your name is bought up, that will come up.
~By Blu Cantrell ~
The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.
~By Charlize Theron ~
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
~By Shakti Gawain ~
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
~By Sally Quinn ~
There is no limit to the power of loving.
~By John Morton ~
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
~By Harold Pinter ~
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power.
~By Thomas Willis ~
There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
~By John T. Walton ~
The law always limits every power it gives.
~By David Hume ~
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.
~By David E. Price ~
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
~By Henry Miller ~
There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
~By Cat Stevens ~
My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.
~By Kenny Marchant ~
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.
~By Viktor E. Frankl ~
All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.
~By Charles Hodge ~
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
~By Thomas Paine ~
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
~By Paulina Rubio ~
What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.
~By Aulis Sallinen ~
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
~By Walt Whitman ~
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
~By Epictetus ~
The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety and security of the American people, civilians abroad, and the people of Iraq.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.
~By Craig L. Thomas ~
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
~By Mark Hopkins ~
Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
Power without abuse loses its charm.
~By Paul Valery ~
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.
~By Duong Van Minh ~
We'll make our voices heard loud and clear on the importance of cost-based power.
~By Maria Cantwell ~
I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
~By Paula Abdul ~
But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.
~By Friedrich List ~
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
~By Mary Wortley ~
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
~By Mark Rutherford ~
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 ~
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
~By Francis Bacon ~
There's probably a bunch of Power Stripe floating through the Def Jam offices right now.
~By Method Man ~
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
~By Sissela Bok ~
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war.
~By Marc Faber ~
That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
~By Hattie McDaniel ~
As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
~By Felicity Kendal ~
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
~By Pierre Schaeffer ~
FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.
~By Sepp Blatter ~
If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.
~By Henry Reed ~
The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.
~By Kenneth Lay ~
I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.
~By Michael W. Smith ~
I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.
~By Roy Romer ~
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
~By Pericles ~
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
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