Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Grace is at work even in fallen man ... to bend partially back in the right direction those human powers and endowments… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But… — Richard Brown Copy Share Image
Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man; the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind,… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you are a man of power, your decisions affect so many people and sometimes it can appear to be extremely evil,… — Jimmy Jean-Louis Copy Share Image