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

• 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

• I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

  

  Eli Whitney
  • Time
  • Power
  • Fear

• What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Fall
  • Waiting
  • Cold

• I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Call
  • Negativity
  • Therapist

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

  

  Georges Danton
  • Power
  • Abandoned
  • Rests