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“The power of impeachment is given by this Constitution, to bring great offenders to punishment. It is calculated to bring them to punishment for crimes which it is not easy to describe, but which every one must be convinced is a high crime and misdemeanor against the government.”
James Iredell (1751–1799) first seen 1788 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: July 28, 1788, p. 107.
“I say, therefore, that the men who founded Judaism were not impelled by evil, selfish motives, but goaded on by a demoniacal power.”
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the Mohammedan had not practised tolerance at a time when this idea was unknown to the rest of Europe, there would now be idyllic peace in the Balkan States and in Asia Minor. Here it is the Christian who throws in the leaven of discord; and with the cruelty of a ruthlessly reacting power of nature, the otherwise humane Moslem rises and destroys the disturber of his peace.”
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he power [...] has never disarmed, is today in certain respects stronger than ever, possesses a much better disciplined, more unconditionally submissive throng of officials than in any former century, and is only waiting for the hour when it can unscrupulously assert itself.”
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have never understood why Catholics of culture take pains to deny or to explain away the fact that the Roman Church is not only a religion but also a secular system of government, and that the Church as representative of God upon earth may eo ipso claim — and always has claimed — absolute power in all things of this world.”
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.”
Charles Hodge (1797–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cry of distress lays hold of our Lord's omnipotence. It is as easy for God to supply thy greatest as thy smallest wants, even as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a blazing sun as to kindle the fire-fly's lamp.”
Thomas Guthrie (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me a baptism of glowing love, Thy power and presence wheresoe'er I rove; And my last prayer, all other prayers above — Oh, give to me More of Thyself, Lord Jesus: more of Thee!”
Anna Shipton (1815–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.”
Joseph Alleine (1634–1668) said by 1668 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It appears to me that, even within the recollection of living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life, but more and more as an easy going guide to future enjoyment, to a universal happiness and an indiscriminate salvation.”
Frederic Dan Huntington (1819–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it—a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”
Richard Salter Storrs (1821–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ideas appropriate to a past social order have a strange power of influencing thought and action within a later institutional frame work.”
Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden (1907–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The difficulties in economic life arise mainly because men forget divine power,,”
Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden (1907–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.”
Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Talent alone is not enough. In the end, Guardian, it is desire that creates a master vintner, makes him into a Vineart. A passion, not for power, or strength, but for the grapes themselves. Anything else leads to ruin.”
Laura Anne Gilman (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Sin Washer had died centuries ago, and His legacy seemed often to be in the accumulation of connections and power more than the distribution of emotional or spiritual ease. She kept that thought to herself. Wisdom came in many forms, and silence was often the most useful.”
Laura Anne Gilman (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the past, I might have favored a cease-fire with Hamas during a conflict with Israel. But today it is clear to me that peace is not going to be possible now or in the future as long as Hamas remains intact and in control of Gaza. Hamas's power and ability to threaten Israel — and subject Gazan civilians to ever more rounds of violence — must end.”
Dennis Ross (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Revolution is a very difficult task. It is beyond the power of any man to make a revolution. Neither can it be brought about on any appointed date. It is brought about by special environments, social and economic. The function of an organized party is to utilise an such opportunity offered by these circumstances.”
Bhagat Singh (1907–1931) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Young Political Workers (1931)
“Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has. Schmidt's tenure as CEO saw Google integrate with the shadiest of US power structures as it expanded into a geographically invasive megacorporation. (p. 37)”
Julian Assange (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often say that censorship is always a cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think. (p. 121)”
Julian Assange (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Neurochemistry of Power - Politics In Spires, February 2014
“Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cultural essentialism is, thus, intimately tied to power relations. Fixity, homogeneity and separateness are prioritised within an essentialist framework. Therefore, part of any effort to resist essentialism is recognising diversity within difference, contingency, mutability and connectedness.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our new concept of just power argues that the promotion of justice should be the aim of modern statecraft, not for altruistic reasons, but because it is the only sustainable way that states can promote progress and stability in a globalised world.”
Nayef Al-Rodhan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.”
Chris Anderson (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than one that simply accepts what it’s told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.”
Chris Anderson (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.”
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power ourselves, our souls, and all that concerns us for time and eternity?”
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Assurance is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.”
J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power, is very sublime. It makes a man who intrepidly dares every thing that can. oppose or attack him within the sphere of mortality — who will press toward his object while death is impending over him — who would retain his purpose unshaken amidst the ruins of the world.”
Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) said by 1903 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How can it not be necessary, for him who wishes to lay hold of the power of God, to philosophise and to grasp with comprehension intellectual concepts?”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As reported in Clement of Alexandria by Eric Osborn (Cambridge University Press: 2008), p. 63.
“Let everything you do be done for God, both deeds and words; and refer all that is yours to Christ; and constantly turn your soul to God; and lean your thought on the power of Christ. ... Let Christ be to you continual and unceasing joy.”
Clement of Alexandria (150–215) said by 215 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.”
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”
John Kotter (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.”
John Kotter (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once in a lifetime, you find that power To break out and run from the Devil's deep clutch All that you need (it's the finest hour) Is to believe in the magic touch”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Will-power, give me back some to survive, One more hour and I'm coming alive... I can see the light! And there's blue sky breaking Through the edge of the night... I can see the light!”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is zero hour and there's no way back Can you feel that power in its arms you're wrapped All through the night-time Till the sun comes in? Now Heaven's Open Fly right in!”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do right! and thou hast naught to fear; Right hath a power that makes thee strong. The night is dark, but light is near; The grief is short, the joy is long.”
Thomas Cogswell Upham (1799–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 201.
“When the Soviets faced these two leaders of shared purpose and conviction, they faced their worst-case scenario: a moral-political meta-power.”
Mark Riebling (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[H]e that despairs limits an infinite power to a finite apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little contracted model.”
Robert South (1634–1716) first seen 1684 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All Contingencies under the Direction of God's Providence" (Sermon preached at Westminster Abbey, February 22, 1684–5). Vol. 1, pp. 135–136.
“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”
Robert South (1634–1716) first seen 1661 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: False Foundations Removed, and True Ones Laid" (Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, December 10, 1661). Vol. 1, p. 460.
“In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Preserving power, rather than increasing it, is the main goal of states.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The optimists' claim that security competition and war among the great powers has been burned out of the system is wrong. In fact all of the major states around the globe still care deeply about the balance of power among themselves for the foreseeable future.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you’re a country like Ukraine and you live next door to a great power like Russia, you have to pay careful attention to what the Russians think, because if you take a stick and you poke them in the eye, they’re going to retaliate. States in the Western hemisphere understand this full well with regard to the United States.”
John Mearsheimer (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source