#power

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #bud #ever #liberties

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life-lessons #motivational #problems

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain? ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense ‘extrasensory’. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applying themselves to the sciences and other disciplines, it seems to me that those of us who can should use this long-craved freedom to study and to let men see how greatly they wronged us when depriving us of its honor and advantages. And if any woman becomes so proficient as to be able to write down her thoughts, let her do so and not despise the honor, but rather flaunt it instead of fine clothes, necklaces, and rings. For these may be considered ours only by use, whereas the honor of being educated is ours entirely. ↗

— Louise Labé

#feminism #learn #power #troubador #education

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#anything #being #being yourself #get #into

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disagree #humble #power #those

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality. ↗

— Khaleda Zia

#communal #division #harmony #nation #power

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#destroys #forgiven #knowing #life #power

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ↗

— William Proxmire

#check #cloak #dangerous #doubly #especially