Quotes by Authors - Page 84

Power tends to connect absolute power connects absolutely.
Peter Newman
Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell
If absolute power corrupts absolutely where does that leave God?
George Daacon
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer
The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind freedom a rarely acquired characteristic.
R. H. S. Crossman
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
The tyrant dies and his rule is over the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Søren Kierkegaard
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
Not hammer strokes but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
Rabindranath Tagore
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
André Gide
It is not power that corrupts but fear. The fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
Anonymous
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!
Thomas Hood
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Thomas Fuller
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Douglas Jerrold
There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.
Alice Thomas Ellis
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Possession they say is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Louis L'Amour
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
Gerald Brenan
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
Anonymous
He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.
Anonymous
The only prison we need to escape from is the prison of our own minds.
Anonymous
Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive- it's such an interesting world.
L.M. Montgomery
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.
Mike Todd
I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.
Grenville Kleiser
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.
Anonymous
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.
Dale Carnegie
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Our self-image strongly held essentially determines what we become.
Maxwell Maltz
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
If you want your children to improve let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
However much we guard against it we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.
Eric Hoffer
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen.
Dame Rebecca West