#power

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ↗

— Aristotle

#contemplation #depends #life #mere #power

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#arab countries #countries #israel #lebanon #match

It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in. ↗

— Julian Assange

#abusers #always #bad #believe #controversy

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#care #fact #going #i #i think

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#highest #possess #power #proof #virtue

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#love #lover #make #poet #power

Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. ↗

— Dave Barry

#causes #certain #class #force #items

The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it. ↗

— Chris Bell

#american people #anyone #her #his #people

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#help #hero #him #indiana #indiana jones