Human Power Quotes

• Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Rule
  • Human Knowledge
  • Human Power

• Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Generate
  • Human Power

• If human power in history—among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals—is self-interested power, then “the revelation of divine goodness in history” must be weak and not strong.

  

  James Hal Cone
  • History
  • Races
  • Human Power

• All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Human Power
  • French Revolution
  • Avalanche

• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Generation
  • Treasures
  • Gathering

• Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Law
  • Equality
  • Human Power

• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Architecture
  • Creation
  • Characters

• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Patience
  • Human Power
  • Compound