My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.
Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.
What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.
To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.
'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.
It is possible to be confident and still practice humility. Be confident in the success of the teachable, sure in the power & grace of That which supports you.
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly
There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
