Duration Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duration Inspirational Long Violence
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth;… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
