Power Upon Quotes

7 quotes by 6 authors

• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there… — Edmund Burke
• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. — Demosthenes
• Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus’ three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands:… — Pope Francis
• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
• Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings. — Samuel Johnson
• Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination… — Carl Clinton Van Doren

Who Wrote These Power Upon Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 7 Power Upon Quotes as follows:

• 2 Power Upon Quotes by Edmund Burke
• 1 Power Upon Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 Power Upon Quote by Demosthenes
• 1 Power Upon Quote by Pope Francis
• 1 Power Upon Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Power Upon Quote by Carl Clinton Van Doren