The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace… — Homer Copy Share Image
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if… — Hjalmar Schacht Copy Share Image
He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. — Pericles Copy Share Image
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years… — Robert Blair Copy Share Image
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. — John Bright Copy Share Image
It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those… — Nicholas Haslam Copy Share Image
If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
