We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
Nothing retains less of desire in art in science than this will to industry booty possession.
Where the people possess no authority their rights obtain no respect.
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession which I was trying to throw off and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex age race skin color language religion political view or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
After it is all over the religion of man is his most important possession.
Gentleness self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.
The only real security is not in owning or possessing not in demanding or expecting not in hoping even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was nor forward to what it might be but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf not gun cabinet or wallet.
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949 he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.