“Evil in man is radical, so much so that it cannot be overcome by human power.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“But to “settle” the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli’s power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers believed devoutly that there was a God and that the unalienable rights of man were rooted - not in… — Tom C. Clark Copy Share Image
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
“When men are spoken of as kings and subjects, or when Government is mentioned under the distinct and combined heads of monarchy,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Can it be possible that all human sympathies can thrive, and all human powers be exercised, and all human joys increase, if… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Aldo Leopold, the early 20th century's Henry David Thoreau, said that we should think like a mountain, with a sense of permanence… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“3. Blame. Whenever things don’t turn out as planned, blame yourself or others. Blame is another defensive cover-up for shame. Blame maintains… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, as Seattle's leaders and residents would discover, this new urban environment was a palimpsest of exploitation, conflict, compromise, adaptation, and defeat.… — Matthew Klingle Copy Share Image
“They accuse me-- Me --the present writer of The present poem--of--I know not what,-- A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“A bird killed in the name of human power is in truth a loss of power from the world, not an addition… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
