Rather, it is a political theory that emerged in response to the growth of unlimited state power; libertarianism draws its strength from a powerful fusion of a normative theory about the moral and political sources and limits of obligations and a...Quote by Tom G. Palmer about politics, limits, order, state, moral, power
The force of vapour is another fertile source of moving power; but even in this case it cannot be maintained that power is created.Quote by Charles Babbage about power, force, police
The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.Quote by Charles Babbage about wealth
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about anger, moment, day, life
I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm.Quote by Floyd Abrams
The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing-by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature.Quote by M. H. Abrams about literature, concentration, human imperfections, power, things
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to...Quote by George W. Bush about vulnerability, fear, suffering, earth
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.Quote by Katherine Dunn about power
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.Quote by Feodor Mihailovici Dostoievski about unhappiness, happiness
We have to go back to the source of the oil. There was no question, there was an abundance. In a normal evolutionary sense, the oil question has to be addressed.Quote by Sean Connery about question, common sense, sense
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.Quote by Bill Gates about reason
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.Quote by Martin Feldstein
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, wife, happiness, nothing, man
A 'debugged' program that crashes will wipe out source files on storage devices when there is the least available backup.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers
The most valuable quotation will be the one for which you cannot determine the source.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education
Lenses are attracted back to their source - hard rocks.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about photography, rocks
The more certain you are that your thought is original, the more obscure the source from which you accidentally plagiarized it.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about thinking