Top 1200 Desire For Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger than you and then you're winning or losing. It's power, a power play.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

That's what Judith Herman is saying, and she's absolutely right. Power then breeds an intensification of all because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.

Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this leads us to prayer.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.

Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

If you want to see God, kill desires. Desires are in the mind. When you have a desire for something, don't act on it and it will go away. If you desire to drink this cup of tea, don't, and the desire for it will go away.

We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect and pure happiness, because only then will all desires end. As long as desire exists misery exists, because with desire there can be no peace.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny.

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

The power of the heart is to be connected with who you are at the deepest level. The power of the heart is the power of life itself, the power of the very intelligence that pervades and underlies the entire universe. It is a power that lies at the very heart of the universe. So to live in connectedness with that, then you are in touch with the power of the heart.

It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Our ability to receive is a necessary component if we desire to own our power, claim our worth and live fearlessly.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.