A Quote by Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.
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Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.
The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?
Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
Young persons, because of their immaturity, may not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions and should therefore benefit from less severe sanctions than adults. More importantly, it reflects the firm belief that young persons are more susceptible to change, and thus have a greater potential for rehabilitation than adults.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
Brothers and sisters, I believe that there are few, even temple workers, who comprehend the full meaning and power of the temple endowment. Seen for what it is, it is the step-by-step ascent into the Eternal Presence. If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives.
People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
If you wish to have power and influence over the many, be faithful (disciplined) when there is just a few. If you have a few employees, a few distributors, a few people, that's the time to stay in touch and be totally absorbed -- when there is just a few.
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