"It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential."

Power, Race

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

Power, Trust, Day, Judgment

"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

Michelle Shocked, American Musician

Power, Nature, People, Artists

"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Success, Morality, Crime

"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Choice, Glory, Responsibility

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

Voltaire, French Writer

Power, Religion, Reason

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Power, People, Man

"All children have creative power."

Brenda Ueland, American Writer

Power, Children

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

Anna Sewell, English Writer

Power, Cruelty, Doctrine, Guilt

"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Power, Courage, Strength, Opportunity

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"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."

Religion

"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."

Being

"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."

Power

"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."

Society

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."

Equality

"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."

Fact

"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."

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"There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands."

"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."

"People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power."

"It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!"

"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."

"All children have creative power."

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

"Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up."

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"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."

"There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being."

"Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny."

"However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly."

"The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue."

"Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period."

"Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it."

"How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers."

"Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ."

"If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance."