#acquire

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#acquired #commands #force #him #lasts

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. ↗

— Tarja Halonen

#among #competence #inequality #itself #other

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#after #enslaved #most #people #possess

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#acquired #better #careful #days #had