961 private quotes tagged power

“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.” — George Orwell

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“There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.” — Walt Whitman

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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.” — Winston Churchill

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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.” — Howard Zinn

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“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.” — Voltaire

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“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.” — Samuel Johnson

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“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.” — Thomas Paine

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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.” — Aldous Huxley

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” — George Orwell

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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” — Aristotle

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“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.” — Albert Camus

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“All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.” — Ronald Reagan

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“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.” — Aristotle

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“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.” — George Bernard Shaw

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