There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. – Honore de Balzac

Power without a nations confidence is nothing. – Catherine the Great

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus