“The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.”
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Spencer W. Kimball18
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1895–1985Related quotes
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Darwin Among the Machines
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part III - The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit
Context: Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.
“There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why.”
Boniface Mwangi (1983) Kenyan photojournalist
The day I stood up alone
Context: There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why. That day standing up in that stadium shouting at the President, I discovered why I was truly born, that I would no longer be silent in the face of injustice.
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
The Common School Journal, Vol. V, No. 19 (2 October 1843)
Sören Kierkegaard book Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses p. 168
1840s, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Viktor E. Frankl (1905–1997) Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor
Source: Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables