George Davis Herron Quotes

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

George Davis Herron

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• Doing the right thing has power.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Power
  • The Right Thing

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

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

  

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

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Evidence

• 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

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• 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

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Power

• Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Power
  • Powerful

• Whether we work in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors, International Women's Day is a time for us to think about how we can all step up and do everything in our power to help women make real economic progress.

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Prior to 'Action' and 'Justice League 1,' there was no label 'superhero' for a superpowered being. It's really the emergence of Superman and the Justice League that gets the public comfortable with the idea of people amongst us who have extraordinary power and that they've agreed to be our champions.

  

  Jim Lee
  • People
  • Power
  • Action

• Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Power
  • Law

• My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Power
  • Show
  • Civility

• When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.

  

  Katherine Jackson
  • Power
  • Working
  • Learned

• Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music
  • God
  • Mistake

• I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Character
  • Want
  • Comedy

• Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Kids
  • Food
  • Amazing

• The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Power
  • Possession
  • Destructive