The great danger of humane punishment is that people will come to accept state murder as something sanitary. I don't think bureaucracy should ever be entrusted with that kind of power.
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.
In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.
I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.
The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can't. But you can choose for yourself.
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.
I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there's a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.
You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.
That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.
One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on. . . Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
Sometimes I joke around that if I weren't a musician, I would be a power lifter. I don't think people expect it from me because I'm little.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us.
