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“Power is a knife,” Wit said, taking his seat. “A terrible, dangerous knife that can’t be wielded without cutting yourself. We joked about stupidity, but in reality most people aren’t stupid. Many are simply frustrated at how little control they have over their lives. They lash out. Sometimes in spectacular ways…”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These are not the actions of greatness. You are no scholar. You merely like being near them. You are no artifabrian. You are merely a woman who likes trinkets. You have no fame, accomplishment, or capacity of your own. Everything distinctive about you came from someone else. You have no power—you merely like to marry men who have it.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot doubt that all things are regulated by a supreme Being, who, while he has imprinted on matter forces which show his power, has destined it to execute effects which mark his wisdom... Let us calculate the motion of bodies, but let us also consult the designs of the Intelligence which makes them move.”
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) first seen 1752 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Les Oeuvres De Mr. De Maupertuis (1752) vol. iv p. 22; as quoted by Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain, The Principle of Least Action (1913) p. 6.
“Despite the disorder observed in Nature, one finds enough traces of the wisdom and power of its Author that one cannot fail to recognize Him.”
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[P]erhaps one of the most valuable results to be derived from a truly intellectual study of Astronomy is, the habit of keeping up a sustained attention to all the successive steps of a long series of reasonings. Power, and with it dignity, are gained to the mind by this noble exercise.”
George Biddell Airy (1801–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eternal Power! Grant me through obvious clouds one transient gleam Of thy bright essence in my dying hour!”
William Thomas Beckford (1760–1844) said by 1844 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Prayer", line 14; cited from Cyrus Redding Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1859) vol. 2, p. 283.
“An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.”
Lewis M. Branscomb (1926–2023) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lewis M. Branscomb, Young-Hwan Choi (1996) Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development
“The Soviet Republic hands over power and land to the poor, guarantees you all your conquests in the revolution, places in your hands all the means for defending these gains.”
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze (1886–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Soviet Daghestan in foreign historiography" - Page 60 - by M. A. Daniyalov - Dagestan (Russia) – 1982
“[I]t is quite certain that if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator.”
John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That image, or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.”
John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So full of power, yet blithe and debonair, Rallying his friends with pleasant banter gay, Or half a-dream chaunting with jaunty air Great words of Goethe, catch of Béranger.”
John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Balliol Scholars 1840–1843: A Remembrance", stanza 26, line 1; p. 218. On Matthew Arnold.
“I have sat at the sumptuous tables of power, but I have not run away with the silverware.”
Diosdado Macapagal (1910–1997) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During campaign stops in 1961, as reported in "Common Man's President", Time, 24 November 1961
“I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.”
Albert Pujols (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character, exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.”
James McCosh (1811–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, — this makes life worth living.”
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.”
Dwight L. Moody (1837–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.”
Cyrus the Great (600–530 BC) said by 530 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 290
“[C]larification of thought... from the occupation and interpretation of the mechanical world, whether of cosmical systems or of the body of a man, is unique. For from this world mystery in any real sense has been banished. ...Our knowledge of matter and energy ...is far from complete. But in this field we can move with an assurance, and a power of predicting... true of no other realm of study.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power by which we live and move and have our being is... that which drives on the stars... Science now takes it... whether in fuel, waterfall or sunshine—...all one—and uses it to do... labour of men.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science can... transfer energy... into living bodies, so that... two may live where before one would have struggled miserably for an existence. A simple people, who confused power with deity, like the ancient Greeks or primitive Vikings, would have seen, in this control... the act of a god, and from their... view... the most god-like achievement man has ever accomplished.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thought, reasoning power, memory, free-will, the aesthetic perceptions of beauty and harmony, the ethical ideas of virtue, justice, duty, and self-sacrifice, and the spiritual aspirations of holiness and triumph over death, divide him from the simplest form of life.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power to perform is derived in toto from the inanimate world, however many elaborate metamorphoses it may undergo, and through however many organisms, vegetable and animal, it may pass before it reaches man.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of spontaneously emitting rays... was discovered in 1896 by... Becquerel for the compounds of... uranium.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only too often the inventor is the idealist who, like Mephisto, tries to improve the world, only to be crushed by harsh realities. If he wants to carry through his ideas, he is forced to do business with the wielders of power, whose sense of reality is sharper and more developed.”
Konrad Zuse (1910–1995) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zuse, Konrad (1993). The Computer - My Life (in English) (1ed). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. p. X. Translated by Patricia McKenna and J. Andrew Ross. Full English text at the Internet Archive.
“Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.”
William Powell (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man must make himself a man, he must enable himself to stand up on two legs, unafraid because he has confidence in his own security and in his own power. There is no place for emotionally or politically cuckolded people in the society I speak of. Survival of the fittest.”
William Powell (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you noticed that the people who actually make the laws, the people in power, never make laws for themselves?”
William Powell (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One can surrender one’s rational will to beliefs or habits as easily as to individuals, for essentially the same reasons, and with essentially the same results. Ideas have a mystery and power of their own.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mystery is in a way the guarantee of the boundlessness of the might of the ruler: power bound to reason must always have limitations, great though it may be.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you think maybe I want power for myself? That’s for fools who want to command other fools.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had intended to say that such was the nature of power. Seizing it and holding it were alike filthy.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s the trouble with trying to counter clichés—the counterclichés cliché quicker than shit off a shovel, and with that comes domestication. Either you lose any subversive gloss at all—the hip-hop which now sells us jeans and cheese once fought the power—or, what’s perhaps worse, a horrible zombie gloss of radicalism is retained while you shuffle into the corridors of establishment, rotting.”
China Miéville (born 1972) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Weird, in Jack Dann (ed.), Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (2005), pp. 50-51
“I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn’t win.”
China Miéville (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.”
Tony Abbott (born 1957) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in News.com.au, "Abbott OK being a 'lame, gay, churchy loser'" in news.com.au from all angles, August 28 2009.
“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”
Tony Abbott (born 1957) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, "Abbott accused of being 'incredibly old-fashioned' as he lets off steam", February 9, 2010.
“Liberty is not an aggregate social project. Every individual has rights. And rights give rise to obligations between all men, including those who are in power. That men band in a collective called 'government' doesn't give them license to violate individual rights.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Defunct Foundations of the Republic,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 1, 2010.
“The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Palin Third-Party?” WorldNetDaily.com, January 15, 2010.
“Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women — Samantha Power, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice — who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Libya: A War of the Womb,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 8, 2011.
“There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Debt-ceiling Denier and Proud" American Daily Herald, October 14, 2013.
“Mrs. Clinton’s riches are not capitalism’s reward for hard work. Hillary has accrued wealth by using the predatory political process to wield power over others.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Paltrow of politics (minus looks & ethics),” Praag.org, June 14, 2014.
“Iraq hasn't suddenly 'slipped back into' this backward and benighted state. It was bombed there by a mulish military power which didn't know Shiite from Shinola. [translated from German]”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Irak: Von Tuten und Blasen keine Ahnung gehabt", Junge Freiheit, June 27, 2014.
“If America busies itself not with elective wars, but with commerce, the shift in power and prestige will be away from politicians who prosecute wars, and back to The People who produce prosperity.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald, Don’t Let Fox News Roger America… Again,”LewRockwell.com, September 25, 2015.
“Where once there was an understanding that a reality independent of the human observer exists; students are now taught that truth is a social construction, a function of the power and position—or lack thereof—of persons or groups in society.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Faking History To Make The Black Kids Feel Good" The Daily Caller, January 13, 2017
“If a veteran political operative like Barack Obama is considered beyond reproach, incapable of abusing power—all the more so is it irrational, irresponsible and in Third-World style to hound an administration not yet fully assembled or ensconced, for a political past it lacks. Sane people must walk away from Fake News' Russia Ruse.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Donald Vs. The Deep State" The Daily Caller, March 9, 2017
“The tools threatening President Trump with impeachment have one bag of tricks stuffed with power tools: they audit, indict, arrest, bomb, change regimes. They don't make profitable business deals; they tax them. They don't make peace; they wage war.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Fends Off 'Showboat' Comey And The Federal Zombies," The American Thinker, June 9, 2017.
“The power of the average pop artist and her products lies in the pornography that is her 'art,' in her hackneyed political posturing, and in the fantastic technology that is Auto-Tune (without which all the sound you'd hear these 'singers' emit would be a bedroom whisper).”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harvey Sweinstein And Hollywood's Hos," The Daily Caller, October 20, 2017.
“The object of creating bogus categories of crime is to leverage power over adversaries; to scare them.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Flynn's Sin Was Lying To Liars, Not Colluding With Russians," Storia.com, December 6, 2017
“In the postmodern tradition, the pseudo-academics behind the concept of white privilege have invented for themselves an artificial, political construct. Political constructs confer power on those who dream them up. For politics is the predatory process through which the figment of sick minds is weaponized.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Demonization Of Whites By Mrs. Bill Gates & Other Dangerous Idiots," Constitution.com, June 8, 2018
“The yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient people as appropriate symbols of God's creative power.”
Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source