Human Power Quotes

36 quotes by 29 authors

Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings, and… — John Dickinson
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must… — Francis Bacon
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and… — Mao Zedong
Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. — Samuel Johnson
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying… — Stefan Zweig
All human power is a compound of time and patience. — Honore de Balzac
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius — William Crashaw
Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine… — Martin Delany
God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. — Os Guinness
When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the… — Winston Churchill
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat. — Charles Spurgeon
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Men have cried out to me in sincere and despairing appeal: 'Doctor, I cannot go on like this! I have everything to live for! I… — William Duncan Silkworth
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings — Ursula K. Le Guin
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence… — H.G. Wells
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. — Charles Lindbergh
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!â€”the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an… — Herbert Hoover
The experience I'm talking about has given me one certainty: the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in… — Vaclav Havel
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human powerâ€”specifically… — Naomi Klein

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