Top 1200 Arbitrary Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

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.

'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.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

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

The London police have discovered that the best way to neuter demonstrations is not to move everyone on, or disperse troublemakers, but hold them close, cordon them into a diminishing space for hours and hours, as a sort of arbitrary al fresco arrest.

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

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.

The laws and conditions of the production of wealth partake of the character of physical truths. There is nothing optional or arbitrary in them ... It is not so with the Distribution of Wealth. That is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like.

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.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

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

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

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

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

My mother negotiated a plea deal, and my father went to trial. I think one thing we notice in their case that kind of stands out is how, in some ways, arbitrary the outcomes in the criminal justice system can be. And they did basically the same thing, identical thing.

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

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.

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' .

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.

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.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

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.

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

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

The choices politicians make must be based on values - not an arbitrary, axe-wielding approach to public spending or a dismal exchange between Gordon Brown and David Cameron about percentages that sounds like an argument between different book-keepers.

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

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

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.

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

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

I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

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.

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

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

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.