3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
3 December 2020 David Ogilvy The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.
3 December 2020 James Naismith I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
3 December 2020 M. Scott Peck Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
3 December 2020 Ronald Reagan All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
3 December 2020 Black Elk I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli I repeat… that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
3 December 2020 Carol P. Christ The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.
3 December 2020 Cornel West We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
3 December 2020 Judd Rose With power comes the abuse of power. And where there are bosses, there are crazy bosses. It’s nothing new.
3 December 2020 Rick Perry The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
3 December 2020 Ralph Fiennes I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they’re extremely well informed.
3 December 2020 Fyodor Dostoevsky Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!
3 December 2020 Robert Collier Your real self – the ‘I am I’ – is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker I’m sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.
3 December 2020 Jennifer Aniston People who avoid the brick walls – all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
3 December 2020 Peace Pilgrim If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
3 December 2020 Thomas Love Peacock 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.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell When it comes to energy, cost isn’t everything – but it’s a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
3 December 2020 W. Clement Stone 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.
3 December 2020 John Kasich A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
