3 December 2020 George Santayana By nature’s kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man’s power to answer do not occur to him at all.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
3 December 2020 Epicurus It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
3 December 2020 Glenn Danzig It’s okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that’s evil?
3 December 2020 Virginia Woolf Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
3 December 2020 George A. Smith Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
3 December 2020 Marc Andreessen In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
3 December 2020 Jean de la Bruyere We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank There is much to dislike about President Obama’s approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.
3 December 2020 Roland Barthes Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
3 December 2020 David Brin It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
3 December 2020 James Madison Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
3 December 2020 Felix Frankfurter The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
3 December 2020 Gwen Stefani Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn’t have any creative power, nothing. I don’t know that person any more.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
3 December 2020 Plutarch I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
