#owe

Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails. ↗

— Ian Gilmour

#order #politicians #power #quest #sails

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#care #fact #going #i #i think

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them. ↗

— Howard Barker

#i #i do #personal #plenty #political

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#especially #i #like #more #myself

I want my testimony to stand on that point. But I would point out that Zona Research Inc. showed we have increased market share among business users, educational users, and government users over the past several months - and that's more recent than the IDC report. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#business #educational #government #i #inc

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#highest #possess #power #proof #virtue

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#love #lover #make #poet #power

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. ↗

— Dave Barry

#causes #certain #class #force #items