Top 1200 Controlling Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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.

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

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

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.

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

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

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.

... 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.

The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

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

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

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

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

The jet stream is the controlling influence over the world's weather systems.

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

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

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

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.

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

Peace is not achieved by controlling nations, but mastering our thoughts.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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

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

Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock.

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.

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.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

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.

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.

We humans actually need help controlling our impulses - nudges.

We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

The real butches are straight ... dealing with and controlling men makes you stronger.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

I like to have control over what I'm doing, and that no one else is controlling me.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

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

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs -- there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

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.

If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

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

When you're No. 1 contender for five years, and you know who's controlling things, you'll do something you're not proud of.

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

Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.