#power

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

I loved being a judge, and sometimes I miss the power of the gavel, but this is a lot more fun. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#fun #gavel #i #judge #lot

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#grew #jonah #like #party #power

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#i #last #most #perceive #power

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built. ↗

— Gray Davis

#build #built #consequence #early #earnest

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. ↗

— Kenneth Kaunda

#eventually #maintains #power #state #violence

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#american #born #cabin #coincidence #cooper

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. ↗

— Kenneth Kaunda

#consciences #force #great #inability #leading

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#able #dare #given #lower #matters

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

#distilled #language #most #most powerful #powerful