The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.
The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.
Agape means love for another self not because of any lovable qualities which he or she may possess, but purely and entirely because it is a self capable of experiencing happiness and misery and endowed with the power to choose between good and evil. The love of humans is thus more than a feeling, it is a state of the will.
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
If you have eternal life at all, it simply means that you have the Son, Jesus Christ NOW! Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now, at this very moment, in your own physical body, with your own two feet on the ground, and in the world TODAY! And where does this life come from? Of Him! He is that life! So if you have eternal life, it means that you have Somebody, Jesus Christ, and the life that you possess is of Him.
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.
Opinion is a fitting thing but truth outlasts the sun - if then we cannot own them both, possess the oldest one.
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.