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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline. – Lewis Mumford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. – Flower A. Newhouse	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. – Origen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What power has law where only money rules. – Gaius Petronius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Pittacus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. – William Plomer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world. – Sir Karl Popper	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. – Beatrix Potter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen. – Alcoholics Anonymous Prayer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He who fears something gives it power over him. – Moorish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man has responsibility, not power. – Tuscarora Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. (On President Ronald Reagan) – Muammar Qaddafi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. – Dixie Lee Ray	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence. – Robert D. Richardson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. – Anthony Robbins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too. – Bayard Rustin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments. – Saville	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Enthusiasm...the sustaining power of all great action. – Samuel Smiles	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. – Liz Smith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. – Lincoln Steffens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom only in men's souls. – Adlai Ewing Stevenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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