Quotes with power-worship

Quotes 741 till 760 of 1019.

  • Thomas Malthus The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Caity Lotz The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • James Baldwin The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Lord George Byron The power of thought, the magic of the mind.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Milton Friedman The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • John Marshall The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
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  • John Ruskin The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anita Hill The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Beau Willimon The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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