#pow

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#allied #capable #change #change the world #communications

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#charity #community #creative #equality #family

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. ↗

— Michael Faraday

#been #believe #exerted #full #give

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power. ↗

— Harry Browne

#everyone #individualism #just #libertarian #political

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#away #death #deprive #life #power

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#bodies #fantastic #i #just #know

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#art #delightfully #excite #imagination #manner

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting. ↗

— James Buchan

#accounts #before #brown #came #cash

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head. ↗

— James Buchan

#arab #both #defended #end #felt

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#ask #bear #derives #expectation #fact