Exertion Quote by Friedrich List

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

— Friedrich List

“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of…

— Daniel Webster

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

— M. Scott Peck

Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort…

— Leonard Read

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others…

— Jean Baker Miller

“When you give to grow others’ capabilities, you create abundance in their lives. No matter who you are, you can give power to people…

— Tim Sanders

What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another.

— Frederick Lenz

Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and…

— Christa Wolf

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take…

— James Madison