Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck -
How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.
Zhang Zhidong -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
Hans Rosling -
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
Gabrielle Union -
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
Barney Frank
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison -
Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J. Tillman -
The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Najib Razak -
I'm not - I'm not a person looking for money. I have no political ambitions whatsoever. I don't seek power. I don't seek any kind of praise. I have no ego to fulfill.
Carl Paladino -
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
Ralph Merkle -
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.
Ban Ki-moon -
The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.
Dan Brown -
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
Patricia Ireland -
On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home.
Florence Kelley -
I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
Irvine Welsh -
The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
Oliver Ellsworth
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery -
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
Doug Larson -
I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
Kit Harington -
Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth, a libel on its possessor.
Percy Bysshe Shelley