Top 1200 Destructive Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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.

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

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.

Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

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.

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

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

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

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

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

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

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.

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.

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

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

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

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

Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

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.

We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.

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

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.

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

I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation.

'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.

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

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.

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

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.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

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

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

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

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.

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

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

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

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

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.

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

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.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

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

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

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

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