Her often repeated motto was: "Power is wonderful.
His appeal to the Labour party members tends to involve him brandishing his party card and affirming his loyalty to its motto: Putting power, wealth and opportunity into the hands of the many.
In his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France — a sort of mission statement for the most prestigious academic post in the country — Barthes announced that he aspired above all to "forget" and to "unlearn" and proposed, as a kind of motto, "no power, a little knowledge, a little wisdom and as much flavor as possible".
The screen fades to white and the piece closes on the Honda logo and the brand's motto, "The Power of Dreams".
Early Spider-Man comic books were adorned with the stirring motto: 'With great power comes great responsibility.' Here, Clowes offers a more plausible scenario, in which great power leaves its dull and petty possessor even smaller and more vindictive.
Bacon's revolution (enacted in, among other works, The New Organon, 1620) involves conceiving the new science as (1) founded on empirical observation and experimentation; (2) arrived at through the method of induction; and (3) as ultimately aiming at, and as confirmed by, enhanced practical capacities (hence the Baconian motto, "knowledge is power").
His motto is: "Maintain power by any means necessary," even if it means the elimination of half the population of Iraq.
Despite the media attention given to the Vaccine Villains, I am glad we have some political leaders who seem to be following Spider-Man's motto: "With great power comes great responsibility".
The motto of the powers-that-were when the stuff was produced seems to have been "what the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve over".
Like the character Peter Parker, whose radioactive spider bite transforms him from high school geek into web-shooting wonder, Mr. Maguire is learning to master his emerging talents while abiding by the Spider-Man motto that "with great power comes great responsibility" -- even if that power is of the show business variety.
