#owe

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. ↗

— Liz Smith

#effective #hope #need #power #want

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#authorized #been #case #certain #constitution

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. ↗

— Lysander Spooner

#because #choose #less #man #master

Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#best #creates #enormous #failings #father

These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day. ↗

— Steven Squyres

#borrowed #day #day to day #every #every day

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#him #increased #makes #man #moral

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#candor #genius #innocence #noble #noble qualities

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#ideas #more #our #powerful #should

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#human #i #i believe #i believe in #one thing

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#long #only #out #power #real