#pow

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#comes #defect #defective #individual #likeness

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

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