Quotes of: Powerful-man Keyword

A brick represents a single unit, weak and useless alone, but useful and powerful when organized and grouped with other bricks. So it is with man. 

Brick

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

William Cobbett

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

Her Outback Man

Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.

What Is Occultism?

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

Rose Wilder Lane

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings...,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn

Sephiwe Mduduzi Msiza

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Satchel Paige

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Thomas Jefferson

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

Mikhail Bakunin

While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate.

New York Times April 19 1865

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Vinoba Bhave

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

Michael Behe

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

Robert Casey