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“All power is inherent in the people.”
Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers
“All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.”
“All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.”
Source: Proven Guilty: A Novel Of the Dresden Files
“All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.”
“All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one.”
“All power must be guided by a caring, humane hand, and not by pride or self-interest, be it artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, neurotechnology, or anything else.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.”
Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc
“All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.”
“All power within the microcosm of my world was held and wielded by people who look like me. Plus, I think Nigerians all have this sense that they are better than everyone, including white people. So I have the privilege of a certain distance. It may just be that. So in a sense, I can't claim that as any ability that I have, simply a matter of circumstance.”
“All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.”
“All powerful is the rule of fashion.”
“All powerful money gives birth and beauty.
[Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]”
“All powerful souls have kindred with each other”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions
“All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.”
Source: SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE
“All practical jokes, friendly, harmless or malevolent, involve deception, but not all deceptions are practical jokes. The two men digging up the street, for example, might have been two burglars who wished to recover some swag which they knew to be buried there. But, in that case, having found what they were looking for, they would have departed quietly and never been heard of again, whereas, if they are practical jokers, they must reveal afterwards what they have done or the joke will be lost. The practical joker must not only deceive but also, when he has succeeded, unmask and reveal the truth to his victims. The satisfaction of the practical joker is the look of astonishment on the faces of others when they learn that all the time they were convinced that they were thinking and acting on their own initiative, they were actually the puppets of another’s will. Thus, though his jokes may be harmless in themselves and extremely funny, there is something slightly sinister about every practical joker, for they betray him as someone who likes to play God behind the scenes. […] The success of a practical joker depends upon his accurate estimate of the weaknesses of others, their ignorances, their social reflexes, their unquestioned presuppositions, their obsessive desires, and even the most harmless practical joke is an expression of the joker’s contempt for those he deceives.”
Source: The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays
“All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.”
Source: Aims of Education
“All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All practitioners of Wamphyrism must in the end become possessed by the undead and these unclean spirits so possessing, these dark forces, are also linked to the Satanic bloodline. Look to Mastema, “the angel of disaster, the father of all evil”. Look to deep antiquity and beyond and there you will find the nature both of Satan and Wamphyrism which humans in their false leads, confusion and nescience will seek to obscure. Every excess, every blasphemy, every zenith of the hideous and catastrophic which those who preach a watered down doctrine, claiming that such is either a distortion, a subversion or modern innovation, already exists in the ancient world. “Great is the daughter of Heaven who tortures babies. Her hand is a net, her embrace is death. She is cruel, raging, angry, predatory.” Do not let the shackles of those preaching false doctrine hold you back. Instead break those fetters and, looking to ancient evil as the source of your praxis, unleash hell.”
“All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.”
“All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.”
Source: José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography
“All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.”
“All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll ...
“All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.”
Source: Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith
“All pre-Abrahamic cultures understood the tremendous importance of remaining closely connected to the past if the present was to be invested with any spiritually significant meaning. They also understood that the most personally relevant and accessible portal to the empowering wisdom and goodness of the past was through their own direct ancestors, those who shared their particular bloodline and DNA. It was for this reason that all traditional cultures engaged in what is often called ancestor worship (pitri-puja). There is no pre-Abrahamic culture on Earth that did not honor its ancestors in one form or another. This is a very important spiritual practice and tradition that used to be practiced universally by families in the ancient past. The process of ancestor worship now needs to be revived in the modern world if we are to not lose our sacred connection with our own cultural-spiritual heritage. Ancestor worship must become a regular practice again.”
“All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“All preachers speak confidently about life after death as if they once died, even though almost all of them have never even fainted.”
“All preaching should be as creative as we can make it. We've been entrusted with such a treasure. To have anywhere from 50 to 5000 people who give us 30 minutes of their time to hear whatever we want to say - I think they deserve all the creativity that we can give.”
“All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“All precious things discovered late
To those that seek them issue forth,
For Love in sequel works with Fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth”
“All precious things, discover'd late, To those that seek them issue forth, For love in sequel works with fate, And draws the veil from hidden worth.”
Source: Fifty Poems
“All prejudice comes with a flag, all discrimination comes with a badge.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.”
Source: Days for decision
“All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.”
Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
“All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.”
Source: A Voice from the South
“All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.”
“All present-day governments are fanatically committed to an easy money policy.”
Source: Human action: a treatise on economics
“All presidents - particularly war presidents, presidents inclined to the imperial presidency - invoke Abraham Lincoln as a justification, but they omit these three defenses of Lincoln's strong actions. Suspend habeas, blockade, increase army without congress, arrest Maryland legislators, etc.”
“All presidents but Jefferson have argued that their first job was to keep us safe. All presidents but Jefferson were wrong. If you read the Constitution, you will see that the President's first job - as Jefferson understood well - is to keep us free.”
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.”
“All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.”
“All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.”
“All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.”
Source: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.”
“All pride is willing pride.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.”