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"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self." »Eric Hoffer
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"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute." »John P. Grier
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"We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." »Nick Diamos
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute." »Edwin Holt Hughes
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"Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." »Anonymous
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"Obstinate silence implies either a mean opinion of ourselves, or a contempt for our company; and it is the more provoking, as others do not know to which of these causes to attribute it?whether humility or pride." »Hazlitt
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"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." »James Truslow Adams
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"Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex." »Katharine Graham
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"We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed." »Henry David Thoreau
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"It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armour-proof against painful emotions; nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer." »Von Humboldt
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"The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire." »Bhartrihari
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