Quotes about Human Power

Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Votes: 2

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. Votes: 2

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch. Votes: 2

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. Votes: 2

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. Votes: 2

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Votes: 0

Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power. Votes: 0

I believe in the power of the human spirit. Votes: 0

All power in human hands is liable to be abused. Votes: 0

All human power is a compound of time and patience. Votes: 0

Education is a human right with immense power to transform Votes: 0

Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. Votes: 0

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power. Votes: 0

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity. Votes: 0

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. Votes: 0

God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness. Votes: 0

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings Votes: 0

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Votes: 0

It's human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are. Votes: 0

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will. Votes: 0

The more power that we have, the less human we are. Votes: 0

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it. Votes: 0

I believe in the power of every human being to end suffering. Votes: 0

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity Votes: 0

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. Votes: 0

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment. Votes: 0

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. Votes: 0

Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want. Votes: 0

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Votes: 0

Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. Votes: 0

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature. Votes: 0

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. Votes: 0

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. Votes: 0

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. Votes: 0

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings. Votes: 0

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Votes: 0

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. Votes: 0

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. Votes: 0

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. Votes: 0

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. Votes: 0

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart. Votes: 0

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. Votes: 0

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. Votes: 0

The power of recognition is one of the strongest forces for stimulating human and social action. Votes: 0

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature. Votes: 0

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! Votes: 0

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution. Votes: 0

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. Votes: 0

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. Votes: 0

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags. Votes: 0

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. Votes: 0

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... ! Votes: 0

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything. Votes: 0

No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian) Votes: 0

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. Votes: 0

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature Votes: 0

...but there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power... Votes: 0

No human power can force the intrenchments of the human mind: compulsion never persuades; it only makes hypocrites. Votes: 0

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient. Votes: 0

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. Votes: 0

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. Votes: 0

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. Votes: 0

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind. Votes: 0

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend. Votes: 0

The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good. Votes: 0

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand. Votes: 0

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another. Votes: 0

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven. Votes: 0

As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it. Votes: 0

But in all the annals of human vice, no power is as destructive or demonic as perverted sincerity Votes: 0

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable. Votes: 0

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. Votes: 0

Managing the power of choice, with all it's creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. Votes: 0

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Votes: 0

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. Votes: 0

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul Votes: 0

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power. Votes: 0

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. Votes: 0

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power. Votes: 0

True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection. Votes: 0

I do believe in the power of prayer. I do. And I believe in the power of human kindness. Votes: 0

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power. Votes: 0

Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first. Votes: 0

The power that holds Africa is human, and it is recognized that whatsoever man has done, man can do. Votes: 0

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time. Votes: 0

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. Votes: 0

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. Votes: 0

Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. Votes: 0

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people Votes: 0

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. Votes: 0

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. Votes: 0

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it. Votes: 0

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. Votes: 0

Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision. Votes: 0

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. Votes: 0

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Votes: 0

Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet. Votes: 0

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. Votes: 0

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event. Votes: 0

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism ... Votes: 0

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! Votes: 0

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. Votes: 0

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. Votes: 0

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity. Votes: 0

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Votes: 0

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission. Votes: 0

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs. Votes: 0

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness Votes: 0

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. Votes: 0

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body. Votes: 0

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself. Votes: 0

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. Votes: 0

Without a strong educational system democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom. Votes: 0

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought. Votes: 0

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature. Votes: 0

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. Votes: 0

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. Votes: 0

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. Votes: 0

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control. Votes: 0

Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide. Votes: 0

motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power. Votes: 0

Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! Votes: 0

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them. Votes: 0

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power. Votes: 0

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Votes: 0

When you truly embrace your human impermanence you connect with the power you have, and influence you have, over the time you have. Votes: 0

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance. Votes: 0

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "˜power' over other species. Votes: 0

The power of the human mind is unstoppable. It can make bad things Great and good things Worst! Use it accordingly. - myselfRMD Votes: 0

She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. Votes: 0

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. Votes: 0

You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat. Votes: 0

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. Votes: 0

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals. Votes: 0

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. Votes: 0

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. Votes: 0

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. Votes: 0

It is the power of questions that embolden us and keep us as expectant children, all the while developing the power of human consciousness. Votes: 0

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. Votes: 0

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. Votes: 0

The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith. Votes: 0

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon. Votes: 0

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. Votes: 0

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power. Votes: 0

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums. Votes: 0

Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. Votes: 0

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture. Votes: 0

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature. Votes: 0

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part Votes: 0

Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm. Votes: 0

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. Votes: 0

It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart. Votes: 0

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose. Votes: 0

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win. Votes: 0

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience. Votes: 0

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. Votes: 0

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. Votes: 0

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail. Votes: 0

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. Votes: 0

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. Votes: 0

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. Votes: 0

I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything. Votes: 0

The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love. Votes: 0

There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there. Votes: 0

What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core. Votes: 0

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. Votes: 0

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice. Votes: 0

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart. Votes: 0

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius Votes: 0

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power. Votes: 0

The human being has enormous resources in the power to heal. And in those resources lie things that we ourselves need to clear or feel. Votes: 0

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being. Votes: 0

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected. Votes: 0

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love. Votes: 0

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child. Votes: 0

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point Votes: 0

We are in the twilight of this earth. The societies and civilizations of human beings will not endure much longer because of their abuses of power. Votes: 0

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit. Votes: 0

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power. Votes: 0

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out. Votes: 0

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe. Votes: 0

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it. Votes: 0

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. Votes: 0

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty. Votes: 0

Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly. Votes: 0

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot. Votes: 0

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support? Votes: 0

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Votes: 0

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. Votes: 0

Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety. Votes: 0

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport. Votes: 0

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well Votes: 0

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace. Votes: 0

... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character. Votes: 0

There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be. Votes: 0

We must refuse to lean upon the broken staff of human wisdom & cling to the gospel alone as the power of God to save a hardened humanity. Votes: 0

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human. Votes: 0

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. Votes: 0

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories. Votes: 0

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit. Votes: 0

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. Votes: 0

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with. Votes: 0

No human being, man, woman, or child, may safely be entrusted to the power of another; for no human being may safely be trusted with absolute power. Votes: 0

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated. Votes: 0

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. Votes: 0

To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge. Votes: 0

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power. Votes: 0

Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility. Votes: 0

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Votes: 0

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have. Votes: 0

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow. Votes: 0

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you would keep the current on. Votes: 0

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. Votes: 0

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom. Votes: 0

To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will. Votes: 0

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something? Votes: 0

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. Votes: 0

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within. Votes: 0

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace. Votes: 0

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power. Votes: 0

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood. Votes: 0

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. Votes: 0

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it. Votes: 0

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. Votes: 0

We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty. Votes: 0

One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup. Votes: 0

Lasting fulfillment is attained only through gaining insight into the core of our human nature, unleashing the power to understand, appreciate, and enjoy our lives at the deepest level. Votes: 0

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain. Votes: 0

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. Votes: 0

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. Votes: 0

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. Votes: 0

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. Votes: 0

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others. Votes: 0

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present. Votes: 0

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it. Votes: 0

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings. Votes: 0

Power is just so much part of the human being because power is survival. But I wonder if that is the best way to survive, by killing someone else. Votes: 0

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit. Votes: 0

I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. Votes: 0

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum. Votes: 0

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places. Votes: 0

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people. Votes: 0

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation. Votes: 0

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so. Votes: 0