Stronger Power

Famous quotes containing the words stronger and/or power:

    He made all these and more,
    Made all we see; and us, in spite: how else?
    He could not, Himself, make a second self
    To be His mate: as well have made Himself:
    He would not make what He mislikes or slights,
    An eyesore to Him, or not worth His pains;
    But did, in envy, listlessness, or sport,
    Make what Himself would fain, in a manner, be—
    Weaker in most points, stronger in a few,
    Worthy, and yet mere playthings all the while,
    Things He admires and mocks too,—
    Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long- wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)