Who first said, "Use your powers for good instead of [or not for] evil"?
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Superman's father to his son in the Fortress of Solitude.
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"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2001\nThe man is brilliant!
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Nikola Tesla.\n\nBecause he thought it wouldn't cause lights to flicker for anyone.
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What better justification is there than to allude to a higher power having made you to do something instead of just taking responsibility for your own words and actions.  That burns me up.  Hiding behind a God or a Deity figure to conveniently absolve yourself so that you can "pretend" to yourself and the rest of the world that you're not culpable.
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Who was it that said something like "You can feed a man a fish and that would take away his hunger for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, he can feed himself for a lifetime." The problem can't be solved by moving people between point A to B, but rather by teaching them how to help themselves through education....
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The first quote means that doing right isn't easy and will, in fact, be more difficult, given that people often will try to prevent you from doing right, because it (often) causes them to feel guilty about their own lack of effort.\n\nThe second means all the laws in the world won't keep bad people from behaving badly, while truly good people don't need to know right from the law; it is intrinsic in their nature.\n\nHope this helps...
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Context as follows: giving up liberty only gives you tyranny it doesn't give you safety.  Benjamin Franklin and his fellow British citizens gave up their liberty to a king so that he would protect them but he really only repressed them, thus the revolution was born.
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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." \n\n-William James
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"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security"\n- ben franklin\n\nguess.
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The earliest reference to what may be the original quote appears below.  I couldn't find anything linking this with Nostradomus, however.  I believe he was French?\nThe difference between the two quotes have been placed in parenthesis by me.  I'm kinda thinking the grammatical error made by Gide may be due to translation.  \n\n"It is better to be hated for (what) you are than to be loved for (something) you are not."  Andre Gide\n\nA French novelist, Gide was born December 22, 1869 and died February 19, 1951.\n\nHope this helps!
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From the New Testament:\n\nThe Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)\n\n"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." Matthew 5:44\n\n"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."  Romans 12.21\n\nThe basic thought can be found in the speeches of leaders such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.\n\nOver 2000 years ago, the Latin poet Virgil said that love conquers all.
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And so it goes....\n\nLet he who is without sin cast the first stone.......\n\n\nHmmmmm, who said that?
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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."---Steve Prefontaine\n\nKeep pushing.  A talented person is often overrated, and someone with great ambition is often underestimated.
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I have not seen the movie so I am not certain what specific quotation you are seeking, but in researching this answer, have watched the movie trailer, I know I will have to see this film. \nIn the trailer she says "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." now I am searching for the author of that quote (insert eye-rolling smiley here!!)
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I absolutely love that quote! I knew exactly where it was from. \n\nSeems like it. I take the Bible and all of that with a large helping of salt, and create my own set of beliefs. And, lol, the bit about the 10 commandments, I couldn't believe it when I saw GC voice my thoughts so eloquently on tv!
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There was this monologue:\n"I'm gonna give these guys free will; even though I know every gory detail of what they're going to do with it. How can I not know? I know everything. And those guys I know are going to sin, well, I'm going to tell them NOT to sin! Yes, even though I KNOW they're going to hell, I'm going to tell them NOT to do the things I know they will do anyway! Hey! I didn't say I was going to make them very smart.\n\nAnd if they get me mad I'll send a guy into Yahoo Answers who will ask endless questions about free will. OK, cue the Archangels .."
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1) This was Socrates, and he made this statement at his trial.  (Read the "Apology" by Plato.  Or take my word for it.)  What he meant was something like, "If we just go through life never asking why, what's the point?"  He believed that to truly find "the good life" we need to be willing to ask hard questions and come to know the truth.\n\n2)  This is another statement that leads toward the same basic idea.  The speaker (I can't remember who said this one off the top of my head) is suggesting that we cannot be successful until we come to know who we really are--why we do what we do.  So examining one's self is the first step that we must take if we are to live successful lives.