Josiah Warren Quotes

The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

Josiah Warren

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• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Power
  • Strong

• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Man
  • Personality

• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • May
  • Power
  • Change

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Important
  • Power
  • Body

• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

  

  Questlove
  • Love
  • Power
  • Now

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• The power of celebrity backing has been crucial. I would say that 90 percent of our brand recognition comes from celebrities wearing my pieces.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Power
  • Celebrity
  • Brand

• No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Time
  • Power
  • Crime

• I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Power

• I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Light

• Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• Without unleashing the power of life-destroying missiles or forcing obedience to a particular law, rainbows dissolve preoccupation with the predictably ordinary and encourage belief in the extra-ordinary. Such belief, such inspiration, provides much more than passive hopefulness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Law
  • Inspiration

• I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  

  Eli Whitney
  • Time
  • Power
  • Fear

• Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Struggle

• As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Character
  • Horse

• You don't dream so that you can remember it. You dream to achieve it.

  

  Anthony Kim
  • Remember
  • Dream
  • Achieve

• The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

  

  Josiah Warren
  • Power
  • Labor
  • Medium