Power & Society Sayings

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.

The parts of all homogeneal hard bodies which fully touch one another, stick together with a very strong attraction.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the earth revolves around the sun.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

The Sun, as if seated on a royal throne, governs the family of stars which wheel around it.

I could hear a fly walking across the room.

The greatest victory is that over oneself.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself.

I have a mind that is always seeking new things.

The wise man will want to be rich only in order to be able to help himself and his friends.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

If you would be revenged of your enemy, govern yourself.

Hell, there are no rules here—we're trying to accomplish something.

My father was a director of the local gymnasium, and my mother was a woman of strong character and great intelligence.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, Why not find a better job?

The freedom of thought and speech must be preserved in all circumstances.

Light and justice are not goods, but they are the condition of goods.

If we were to take the wave function to be a complete description of reality, then the living and dead cat would indeed be equally real.