power

"Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you."

"A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it."

"And of course that is the problem with all truly powerful ideas. And what we have been talking of is certainly that. What it produces is illuminated by it. But applied where it does not pertain, it pr…"

"We have collected all the wagons in our power, and sent over. Our people have had extreme hard duty; the common guards, common fatigue, and the extraordinary guards and extraordinary fatigue, for the …"

"While I was playing WoW after dinner at mother’s house once, I heard my sister watching the new show Avatar: The Last Airbender on the television. I decided to check it out. I soon found myself really…"

"To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns."

"Ultimately, the State has overwhelming power when compared to the limited resources and power of an accused."

"It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940."

"It's the rich and powerful, by and large, who glamorize immorality, but it's the poor and vulnerable who pay the price."

"In this present that God has made us, there is nothing unworthy our care; we stand accountable for it even to a hair; and is it not a commission to man, to conduct man according to his condition; 'tis…"

"My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me and demonstrating to me that I am not exalted over the panhandler nor less than the mighty. Before my Soul taught me, I thought people consisted of two types:…"

"If we taught men to repress feelings and rewarded him instead for being a captain he might be willing to die to protect us; if we paid him enough to feed his family if he worked in a coal mine, he mig…"

"History has now confronted us with an immediate task which is the most revolutionary of all the immediate tasks confronting the proletariat of any country. The fulfilment of this task, the destruction…"

"Futurists falter because they belittle the power of religious paradigms, deeming them either too literal or too fantastic."

"To the Hindus who considered him , a saint of miraculous powers, the number of their brethren he killed or Islamised was then, as it is now, meaningless."

"To ensure the execution of the Treaty all we lacked later on was a statesman of some strength of purpose."

"The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise ) by Cardinal Robert Sarah , Nicolas Diat"

"No penance would ever expiate the sin against free government of holding that a President can escape control of executive powers by law through assuming his military role."

"Power is always a relative concept."—the illithid Yharaskrik"

"But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. … We can see quite well that our opinions of …"