Top 1200 Equal Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

Music is so incredible, the most healing force in the world along with love of course which all things are created and essentially are. I want to make films that can equal the energy experience of music, the experience of a record that sends your soul to heaven; a film can do this. I've seen films get in this area. Hopefully I've made some; I don't know but I want to make them like this, with the power of musical energy,that's one of my soul-goals for I am in awe of this love called music which I participate in everyday.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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' .

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

For thousands of years what men has done to women is simply monstrous. She cannot think of herself as equal as man. & she has been conditioned so deeply that even if u say she is equal, she is not going to believe it. It has become almost her mind, the conditioning has become her mind, that she is less in everithing. & the man who has reduced the women to such a state also cannot love her. LOVE CAN EXIST ONLY IN EQUALITY, IN FRIENDSHIP

My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle.

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.

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 .

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.