Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 27

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn''t have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

The possession of power over others in inherentlydestructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it isexercised.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, thatthe less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man''s self.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it''s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The saneare usually attracted by other things than power.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Conflict can destroy a team which hasn''t spent time learning to deal with it.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.