#power

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#except #innocent #itself #power #protect

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fallen #her #large #little #may

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. ↗

— Marya Mannes

#any #better #enormous #enough #group

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America. ↗

— Jon Voight

#country #create #demoralize #election #gain

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power. ↗

— George Hickenlooper

#good #good people #most #people #power

Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple understanding, which belongs to the instinctive world rather than the formal one, that some things are the province of those who experience them and not naturally open to the scrutiny of others: courtship and love, with their emotional nakedness; the simple moments of family life; the appalling rawness of grief. That the state and other systems are precluded from snooping on these things is important - it is a strong barrier between the formal world and the hearth, extended or not - but at root privacy is a simple understanding: not everything belongs to everyone. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#government #home #personal #power #privacy

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#gods #love #power #wisdom #love

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#love

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love ↗

— Johnny Cash

#love