#posse

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#civil #community #democratic #economic #enjoy

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. ↗

— Robert Reich

#around #assets #carry #financial #heads

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#him #possess #possesses #wealth

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#every #feeling #formless #inadequate #language

Like it or not, your business became mine the minute you let me inside your body. ↗

— Suzanne Wright

#hot #possessive-hero #business

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#every #implies #obligation #opportunity #possession

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#great qualities #humor #majority #overwhelming #overwhelming majority

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. ↗

— Constance Rourke

#deep #emotion #emotional #forgotten #humor

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#aggressive #anger #australian #britain #comic