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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. – Charles Dudley Warner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. – Miguel de Cervantes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Kareem Abdul-Jabar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life. – Geoffrey F. Albert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. – Douglas Noel Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. – John Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. – John Quincy Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity. – William Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. – Alcaeus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life,--there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Courage consists of the power of self-recovery. – Julie Arabi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing, it appears to me is of greater value in a man than the power of judgement and the man who has it may be compared to a chest fulled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art. – Pietro Aretino	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. – Louis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever. – Heini Arnold	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination. – Paul Aubuchon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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