#power

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#also #animated #anyone #entrusted #love

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choose #freedom #growth #lies #our

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. ↗

— Betty Ford

#help #position #power #used #which

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#count #down #get #going #his

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. ↗

— Brigham Young

#appreciate #clearly #education #life #power

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ↗

— John W. Foster

#fire #genius #lighting #own #power

Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#certain #complex #endowed #institution #name

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#behavior #causes #desire #dominates #everyday

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#economics #industry #most #most powerful #number