May Quotes

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.