Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Whether one believes or not religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive it remains vital inspiring great good and sometimes great evil.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Political liberty the peace of a nation and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set then there'd be peace.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature and it should be displaced. Failing that I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

Music for me it demands full concentration.

I had three children while doing a show as demanding as 'Good Morning America ' so this is - you know it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly yet it keeps demanding more and more money.

They still have some money and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property the landlords like all other men love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Money demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity but your talent to their reason.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.