Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Power
  • Exercise

• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Organization

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Power
  • High

• Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• The West has demonstrated its ability in the past to project power and move troops to distant regions.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• 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
  • People
  • Family
  • Money

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Love
  • Power
  • America

• 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

• Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moment's respite deserve only the end of a rope.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Power

• More power to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty if they can get someone’s attention.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Power
  • Stop
  • Attention

• I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Experience
  • Power

• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Live
  • Power
  • Friends

• The power of fantasy is so strong that people think they are having a good time when they are merely wasting money.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• 'Armor On' explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you'll hear this battle of, 'I love you, no I don't. I love you, I hate you.' That's what you'll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Why
  • Hate

• I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Time
  • Long

• I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Character

• Home is New York.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Home

• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Rhythm

• A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Power
  • Poet
  • Drives