Top 1200 Corrupt Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

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.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

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

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

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.

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

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

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

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

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

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

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

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Here the system is creating an industry around the drug issue when it does nothing to stop the corrupt military that moves the drugs, and the big banks that are all in cahoots with the President and the big shots in the Congress.

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

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

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.

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

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

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

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

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.