Top 1200 American Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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.

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

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

If those who voice opposition to Pope Francis and the direction in which he is leading the church come from other nations but their statements are published on American media platforms, it may appear that they originate in this country or reflect our sentiments. We have our own dissident voices to be sure, but too frequently every challenging voice that criticizes the Holy Father and is broadcast on American media is identified as American in origin.

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

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.

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.

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

From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

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

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

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

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

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

Murders with guns are the No. 1 cause of death for African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34. But talking about race in the context of guns would also mean taking on a subject that can't be addressed by passing a law: the family-breakdown issues that lead too many minority children to find social status and power in guns.

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

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

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

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

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

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.

What we do know is that the planet is going from 7 billion people today to 9 billion. More people want to live like us, drive American- size cars, live in an American-size home, and eat American-size Big Macs. What does that mean? It means that energy demand is going to be going up.

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.

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I'm from a Lebanese-American family. And I've been had lot of contacts and - with Arab-American community, especially Arab-American filmmakers and actors and so forth. It's a community that, a minority that really hasn't been heard from enough. And so many of the stories that are told about Arab-Americans these days are just negative portrayals in the news, but also in television and film. So we're - we set out to try and offset some of those stereotypes.

We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.

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

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

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