#power

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes. ↗

— Tony Snow

#believe #cocky #come #confers #enough

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#little #people #power #put #stay

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. ↗

— Socrates

#doing #doing good #good #had #harm

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#appears #ascent #been #dominion #extent

With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of life. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#condition #existence #life #mastery #nature

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#empower #fair #grew #hearing #how

I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life. ↗

— Georg Solti

#born #breathes #celebration #communicate #country

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#again #away #everything #free #long

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#activities #grades #make #more #powerful

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ↗

— Sophocles

#conscience #dwells #powerful #terrible #us