#pow

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life. ↗

— Myriam Miedzian

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It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#been #between #dissolve #distinction #eternal

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit. ↗

— Ovid

#habit #more #nothing #powerful #than

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

We're a superpower with a Third World grid. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#superpower #third #third world #world

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power. ↗

— James Jarrell Pickle

#his #power #testing #you

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#change #franklin #franklin roosevelt #great #how