A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
You can't win the hearts and minds of the masses unless you inspire them - you must lift their spirits and enliven their hearts.
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!
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