Top 1200 Absolute Power Corrupts Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power