Equal Power Quotes:

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

- Winston Churchill

source: Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland, May 28, 1948.

topic: Philosophy, Ignorance, Envy, Democratic Socialism, Capitalism And Socialism

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

topic: Life, Men, Miracle, Praying To God, I Pray

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

topic: Women, Men, Wish, Women Equality, Equal Rights

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

- Timothy Leary

source: "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Home, Men, Feminist, Battered Women, Equal Power

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

- James Madison

topic: Government, Hands, Political, Independent Judiciary, Judiciary

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

- Will Durant

topic: Peace, Unstable, Supremacy, Equal Power

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.122, Courier Corporation

topic: Faith, Want, Equal, Equal Power

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

- Baron de Montesquieu

source: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.178, Library of Alexandria

topic: United States, Difficult, Equal, Equal Power

There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.

- Sharon Anthony Bower

topic: Powerful, Skills, Silence, Equal Power

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Marriage, Men, Luxury, Equal Power, Great Change

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

- James D. Watson

source: James D. Watson (2009). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.326, Vintage

topic: Humanity, Intellectual, Heritage, Equal Power

I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.

- Massad Ayoob

topic: Life, Experts, Should, Equal Power

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

- Sergey Brin

source: Guest lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 05, 2005.

topic: Mean, Technology, Tools, Equal Power

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

- William Lloyd Garrison

source: William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

topic: Government, Hands, Rights, Equal Power

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Mean, Doctors, Office Work, Equal Power, Bangalore

I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.

- Pipilotti Rist

topic: Cutting, Creating, Balance, Equal Power