Georges Danton Quotes

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

Georges Danton

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• 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

• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Power
  • Become
  • Far

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

  

  Earl Browder
  • World
  • Power
  • Growth

• Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Power
  • Ideas
  • Influence

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

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Power
  • Past
  • Project

• That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Power
  • Change
  • Unique

• Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Great
  • Power

• Our hope is that whosoever is in power, manages this country consistently for all the potential the country has.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • Power
  • Hope

• The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Power
  • Science
  • Energy

• I've chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision and violent revolution. When the Supreme Court makes a decision, no matter how strongly one disagrees with it, one faces a choice - are we, in John Adams' phrase, a nation of laws, or is it a contest made on raw power?

  

  Al Gore
  • Power
  • Law
  • Decision

• 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
  • Power
  • Nature

• I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Religious

• We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • Good
  • May
  • Power

• There's this proud American tradition of worrying about the power of communication companies. That going all the way back to the founding, we've tried to limit the power of monopolies that played a role in our democracy.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Power
  • American
  • Proud

• I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Work
  • Art
  • Power

• My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

  

  Charles Edison
  • Power
  • Model

• The love shown in Christ by our God to mankind should constrain all of us who are followers and disciples of Christ to do all in our power to see to it that the Message of Salvation is carried to those of our fellows for whom Christ Our Saviour was sacrificed but who have not had the benefit of hearing the good news.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Good
  • God
  • Power

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  

  Hani Furstenberg
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• Chuck Norris knows the last digit of PI.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Chuck Norris
  • Digit

• When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good

• At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

  

  Georges Danton
  • Power
  • Abandoned
  • Rests