Top 1200 Absolute Power Corrupts Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

Death is an absolute marvel.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

The right of the majority is absolute.

God has made no one absolute.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

The Absolute cannot be divided.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.