#power

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. ↗

— Plato

#call #come #end #hands #humanity

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#irony #needs #our #power #reduce

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#civil #community #democratic #economic #enjoy

It's hard to put into words, shaking hands with the most powerful man in the world. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#hard #into #man #most #most powerful

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#balance #balance of power #defend #end #favors

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. ↗

— Percy Ross

#asking #got #happiness #in my opinion #most

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #few #great #great minds #hearts

At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#conduct #conscious #destiny #fully #hinge

I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #differences #differently #eye #film

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

#bedrock #built #consent #derive #governed