#power

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment. ↗

— Mohamed ElBaradei

#commitment #durable #durable peace #environment #message

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#art #delightfully #excite #imagination #manner

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact

I have a really powerful urge to see things work. ↗

— Bill Budge

#powerful #really #see #things #urge

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. ↗

— Eliza Farnham

#body #church #credited #drag #know

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#being #even #inhabit #land #mysterious

Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#am #another #back #blind #called

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#economy #electricity #emissions #energy #environmentally

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#effectually #fear #mind #passion #powers