Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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.

'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.

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

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

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

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

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

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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' .

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 .