Top 1200 Arbitrary Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Fundamentally, adopting rules without any estimate of the impact is the height of arbitrary decision-making.

What is 'power' anyway? Power is an ego trip. Power is a way to rise yourself up by lowering others, and I want nothing of it.

Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

It's easier for me to remember things based on the releases of albums. The year is such an arbitrary thing.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.

Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.

The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets.

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.

The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

I think it's the idea that beauty could be power, and that with power comes immortality, and with power comes control, and all of these other things are blocking her heart.