Famous quotes containing the words human, authority and/or power:
“The human spirit will endure sickness; but a broken spirit—who can bear?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:14.
“Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them like a fool, is set down and denounced as an impious heretic by those, whom the masses adore as the interpreters of nature and the gods. Such persons know that, with the removal of ignorance, the wonder which forms their only available means for proving and preserving their authority would vanish also.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
“You mean about success,
And how by its own logic it concentrates
All wealth and power in too few hands?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)