#pow

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #brute #i #magic #only

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#conviction #done #dream #energy #get

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#civilisation #ever #feeble #fire #first

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#cutting #day #fighting #functioning #him

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power. ↗

— Gabriele Nanni

#banish #devil #gives #god #men

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#before #border #diego #doing #enforcement

Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#became #been #england #even #forging

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#because #bodies #bottom #bottom line #decisions

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#being #drives #every #everything #fiber