May Quote by Alfred Kazin Download Open image “Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.” — Alfred Kazin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Noble People Position
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. — John Stott Copy Share Image
I have been lucky to meet some incredible people who do not possess what you would traditionally class as power, but through their charisma,… — Holly Branson Copy Share Image
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. — Lyman Bryson Copy Share Image
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists? — Alfred Kazin Copy Share
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along. — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in space. That is . . . the distant future, though not so distant as we may have thought. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the Earth, for the purposes of tyranny… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn… — Jay Asher Copy Share
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
