Top 1200 Corrupt Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

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

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

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

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

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

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

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

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

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

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

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

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