#posse

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#devote #energy #god #humanity #i

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#beings #courts #culture #ground #high

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. ↗

— Frederick Law Olmsted

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #destroy #humane #irresistibly

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#become #claim #democratic #democratic party #democrats

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#basic #basic understanding #better #break #cause

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ↗

— Max Planck

#attends #brings #enriches #happiness #him

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. ↗

— Michael Ramsey

#attitude #being #faith #knowledge #means

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#civil #community #democratic #economic #enjoy

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see. ↗

— Ron Silver

#behavior #character #dream #i #i can

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bodyguard #class #economy #first #first class