Power Upon Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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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
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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
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
— Demosthenes
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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
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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
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Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
— Samuel Johnson
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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: