Ben Moreell Quotes

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.

Ben Moreell

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• 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

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Power
  • Friends

• 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
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Design

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Power
  • Night

• 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
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• Illinois' economy will benefit from the modernization of the power sector.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Power
  • Economy
  • Will

• You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • God
  • Different

• If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Power
  • Presidential
  • Election

• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Wisdom
  • Stars
  • Ship

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

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Power
  • Serious

• One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Justice

• By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good
  • Work
  • Power

• I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

  

  Albert Reynolds
  • Together
  • History
  • Reality

• There are so many ways to make a living that don't involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Hand

• The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

  

  David A. Bednar

• The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Human
  • Abortion
  • Democrats

• If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power, he must possess wisdom. He becomes converted to the seductive thesis that election to public office endows the official with both power and wisdom. At this point, he begins to lose his ability to distinguish between what is morally right and what is politically expedient.

  

  Ben Moreell
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Ability