Quotes:Progress has come to mean simply more
power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
View quotes by Alex CampbellIt is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining
power of all great action.
View quotes by Samuel SmilesAt every turn when there has been an imbalance of
power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
View quotes by Howard DeanOther passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is
power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation
View quotes by MontaigneIf you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one
power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake
View quotes by Alexander MaclarenPlans are being discussed as to who will replace Dick Cheney if he has to resign for health reasons. It's not easy for President Bush, he can't just name a replacement. He would first have to be confirmed by the oil, gas and
power companies.
View quotes by Jay LenoPleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and
power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
View quotes by De Witt ClintonSome people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times - it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive
power to the mad pace.
View quotes by Kate ChopinThere is no man more dangerous, in a position of
power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
View quotes by Ida TarbellThe poverty of the country is such that all the
power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways.
View quotes by Nathaniel BaconThe writers of the Indian philosophies will survive, when the British dominion in India shall long have ceased to exist, and when the sources which it yielded of wealth and
power are lost to remembrances
View quotes by Warren HastingsThe increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous
power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness
View quotes by David MoirThe war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military
power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
View quotes by Richard ArmitageIf 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.
View quotes by Howard ZinnI repeat, that all
power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, and that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.
View quotes by Benjamin DisraeliToday the real test of
power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it.
View quotes by Anne O'Hare McCormickNo external
power, no terrorist organisation, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
View quotes by George SorosIf absolute
power corrupts absolutely, does absolute
powerlessness make you pure?
View quotes by Harry ShearerKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the
power which knowledge gives.
View quotes by James MadisonMore than anything, the girl finds a way to win and finds a way to get her opponent uncomfortable. I'm sure she has a way to negate
power still. [on the return of Martina Hingis]
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