Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
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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
It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
Fareed Zakaria
As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.
M. J. Rose
I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
Walter Murch
Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'
Dana Carvey
Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
W. L. George
'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10
Pat Robertson
We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.
Barack Obama
You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
Orson Scott Card
Is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?
Marcus Aurelius
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
Leon Trotsky
Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.
James Buchan
Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
Douglas Coupland
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.
David Deida
I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
Ingmar Bergman
I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.
Jazz Jennings
My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
Samantha Power
Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
