#power

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#almost #any #creed #cult #into

The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#deep-seated #driving #forces #intellectual #mankind

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #armaments #balance #balance of power #because

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #does #exercise #exist #govern

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#impinge #incomparable #itself #movement #movements

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#powerful #powerless #satire #traditionally #weapon

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#down #elevators #going #great #hear

Everyone has an angel... A guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight are battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that its us... its everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create. ↗

— Zack Snyder

#art

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#before #chief #deduction #does #experience