#power

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#begin #our #over #power #world

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power. ↗

— William S. Paley

#disappointments #engage #follies #history #power

India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship. ↗

— Pierre Pettigrew

#building #enduring #global #important #india

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #expectations #free #give #great

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. ↗

— Stephen Phillips

#brightness #deepest #glory #god #grasp

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

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

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#approached #hero #how #i #makes

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. ↗

— John Rawls

#constant #finance #function #money #paralyzed