Top 1200 Buying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

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

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

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.

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

When you find that it fails to respond adequately to your buying you don't need any better tip to sell.

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 have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

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

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

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

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

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

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

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

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

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

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

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

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

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

I'm interested only in buying land in my native Hawaii so that one day I can live there and have the space to rescue animals.

You might be a redneck if your satellite dish payment delays buying school clothes for the kids.

I'm afraid of buying a house or anything, 'cause if there's one paparazzi outside for one day, then they'll never leave.

On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

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

There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

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.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.

Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

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.

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

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

I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .

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

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