Top 1200 Buying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

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.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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.

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

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.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

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 class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

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.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

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

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

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

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 one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

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

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

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.

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

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

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

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.

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.

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.