Top 1200 Arbitrary Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

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

From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.

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

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.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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 actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

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.

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.

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 .

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

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

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

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.

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

Quality combines people power and process power.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

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

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

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

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.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.