#power

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#lost #must #power #speak #tongue

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#been #both #christianity #commitment #conflict

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#been #calculated #cavalry #consequence #force

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#how #negative #never #powerful #realized

The measure of a man is what he does with power. ↗

— Plato

#man #measure #measure of a man #power

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power. ↗

— Plato

#little #much #power #same #steals

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

#excellent #extent #i #knowledge #possessions

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#european #might #never #north #potato