#wield

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#energy #facts #most #power #serious

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things. ↗

— John Boehner

#great #great power #great things #lies #majority

In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one. ↗

— Pat Boone

#culture #entertainers #good #influence #make

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy. ↗

— Stu Jackson

#begin #calls #could #judgment #make

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. ↗

— Simone Veil

#culture #instrument #manufacture #professors #their

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. ↗

— Simone Weil

#instrument #manufacture #more #still #teachers

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match. ↗

— Stan Mikita

#get #going #hockey #hurt #i

Well there are those that you wield and those that you join. ↗

— Richard Murdoch

#those #well #wield #you

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#conservatism #difficult #easy #easy way #express