#power

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#become #better #develops #economy #expands

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who? ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#higher #higher level #level #people #perform

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspirational #music #power-of-music #inspirational

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth. ↗

— Marston Morse

#chooses #designs #down #down to earth #earth

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials. ↗

— Dick Murphy

#elected #elected officials #elections #financing #going

There is nothing new about these Republican attacks on our family planning decisions. In fact, from the moment they came into power, Republicans in the House of Representatives have been waging a war on women's health. ↗

— Patty Murray

#attacks #been #came #decisions #fact

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able. ↗

— Bill Plotkin

#healing #spirituality #beauty

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#birth #bound #decadence #empires #fate

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#always #before #came #course #developed