"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."

Burden, Credit, Name

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"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."

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"Your burdens are perfectly measured and gifted to you according to your resistance."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Burden, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

Burden, Writing

"Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations."

James Madison, American President

Burden, Generations

"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability."

Paul Gillmor, American Politician

Burden, Commitment, Conservation, Country

"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Burden, Folly, Future, Humanity

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

Burden, Day, First, Guest

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

Ellen Richards, American Environmental Chemist

Burden, Clothes, Comfort, Night

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated."

Coretta Scott King, American Activist

Burden, Hate

"We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it."

John Newton, American Soldier

Burden, Day, Today, Will

"Your burdens and pains will only be lightened by living ever so fully."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Burden, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom, Life

Explore more quotes by Theodor Adorno

"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

Language, Hunger, Poor, Words

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us."

Power,

"None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace."

Peace, Utopia

"Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices."

Choice, Choices, Freedom

"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."

Cultural, Culture

"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."

Time, Money, Consideration

"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."

Politics, Exploitation, Laws

"Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem."

Thought, Now, Problems

"Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come."

Truth, Belief, Day, Will