One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

After it is all over the religion of man is his most important possession.

Gentleness self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves as a possession.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know my lords: that where law ends tyranny begins.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary whatever the punishment once a specific crime has appeared for the first time its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed you can have it and possess it but if you open your fingers in any way you can lose it just as quickly.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Where an excess of power prevails property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions his person his faculties or his possessions.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf not gun cabinet or wallet.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power it is called a democracy.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness vigor and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Oh how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then and only then can you begin to find inner peace.