#power

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#certain #consults #fight #fighting #hands

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. ↗

— Cornelius Nepos

#hateful #life #loved #pitiable #power

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny. ↗

— Huey Newton

#destiny #determine #giving #had #people

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ↗

— Malcom X

#control #earth #entity #guilty #innocent

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#begins #duty #feelings #i #i love

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#ideas #power #prevail #will

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#changing #death #life #our world #power

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is. ↗

— James Otis

#day #dying #faculties #given #god

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. ↗

— Ovid

#cast #chance #expect #fish #hook

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions