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Quotes About Wielded

An injunction the city had obtained against a sanitation strike in 1966 was still in effect, and could be wielded against the local.
~ Philip Dray
It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it. Zaphod Beeblebrox was amazingly good at his job.
~ Douglas Adams
It might not even have made much difference to them if they'd known exactly how much power the President of the Galaxy actually wielded: none at all. Only six people in the Galaxy knew that the job of the Galactic President was not to wield power but to attract attention away from it.
~ Douglas Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~ Henry Adams
Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.
~ Murray Rothbard
Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.
~ Michael Specter
It is not a wholly medieval problem. It is quite a contemporary one: feminine power when directed at other women has historically been wielded in what has been described as a "masculine" manner.
~ Toni Morrison
whatever power and privileges Jesus' followers possess are gifts to be held loosely and wielded for the care and benefit of others...
~ Carolyn Custis James
Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered, wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right, but a privilege of the evolved.
~ Luis Marques, Asetian Bible
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
~ Henry Adams
Human beings, perfected by our own technology. Only to be wielded by the chosen few. Not by the sheep but by those who are better, Those who are willing to make it to the stars through blood.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.
~ Unknown
Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
~ Vinton Cerf