#owe

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#death #even #heresy #more #much

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #far #god #him #himself

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#frail #light #media #off #people

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#assembly #beginning #bell #everyone #five

Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#board #difference #educate #even #gentlemen

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. ↗

— Aristotle

#democracy #majority #more #more power #poor

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. ↗

— Aristotle

#lies #our

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ↗

— Aristotle

#gold #impress #into #iron #itself

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. ↗

— Aristotle

#exclusive #knowledge #power #sign #teaching