#power

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. ↗

— Lord Acton

#liberty #like #ought #power #right

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#billy graham #christ #christianity #comfortable #complacent

If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people. ↗

— Robert Caro

#cost #effect #effects #good #how

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. ↗

— Robert Caro

#enough #guy #power #see #then

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#battles #been #black #champions #class

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#instinct #own #power #underestimate #you

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#being #building #center #city #current

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#choice #consumers #effectively #enough #huge

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#businesses #consumer #control #going #governments

Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people. ↗

— Dana Rohrabacher

#body #interests #international #long-term #nations