For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country where so many desire status… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No matter how frustrated you may feel, there is always a way out. In every situation that arises, we choose to be… — Blaine Lee Pardoe Copy Share Image
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
