"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

Power, Justice, Killing, Poet

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"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

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"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

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Power, Influence, Responsibility, Truth

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Power, Failure

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Power, Magic, Awakening, Inspirational

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Power, Fantasy, President, Want

"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Power, Weakness, Resistance, Control

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Power, Fear, Help, May

"Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Power, Prayer, Faith, Spiritual

"...without money you cannot fight money."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Power, Money, Fight, Truth

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"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

Ethics

"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."

Philosophy

"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."

Philosophy

"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."

Unity

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

Emotion

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

Desire

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

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

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."

"Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."

"For a great willpower, no road has length!"

"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."

"She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath."

"There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals."

"Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power."

"...without money you cannot fight money."

Explore more quotes by Kahlil Gibran

"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."

"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."

"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."

"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."