3 December 2020 Mark Hopkins The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer 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.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
3 December 2020 Theodore Bikel All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
3 December 2020 Paul Harris Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
3 December 2020 Thomas Hobbes The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature that is to say, of his own life.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
3 December 2020 Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
3 December 2020 Toni Morrison As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
3 December 2020 Baruch Spinoza To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
3 December 2020 Samuel Butler They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, ‘Can he name a kitten?’
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that’s certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
3 December 2020 James A. Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.
3 December 2020 Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
