#power

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power. ↗

— Kenneth Clarke

#back #been #conservative #conservative party #desperately

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#bestial #black #body #brilliant #champions

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#been #charges #commercial #commercial world #ennobling

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#over #powerless #risk #something #trying

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves. ↗

— Albert Claude

#given #image #instruments #make #moment

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools. ↗

— Albert Claude

#around #continue #doubt #ever #grow

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#both #humor #insult #often #powerful

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

#competition #greater #human #human powers #mankind

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#because #deep #enterprises #going #good