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Power Quotes by Wendell Berry
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
- If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience…
- This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
- You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough
- I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What…
- Without prosperous local economies, the people have no power and the land no voice.
- The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of…
- All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have…
- Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
- The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an…
- From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of…
- The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to…
- Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced…
- Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,…
- A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social…
- This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the…
- I thought, He must forebear to reveal His power and glory by presenting Himself as Himself, and must be present only in the ordinary miracle…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo