Wielded Quotes
29 quotes by 28 authors
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is…
— Lucy Parsons
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
— Henry Adams
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The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To…
— John Milton
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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
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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State,…
— Winston Churchill
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Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
— Pierre Bourdieu
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Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
— Stephen King
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History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold…
— Toshiko Kishida
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Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.
— Stan Mikita
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It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by…
— Karl Pearson
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Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the…
— Vinton Cerf
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Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power…
— B.F. Skinner
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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom…
— Walter J Chantry
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.
— Simone Veil
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So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks…
— Janet Frame
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Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such…
— Richelle Mead
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The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed…
— Greg L. Bahnsen
Who Wrote These Wielded Quotes
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