Top 1200 Gaining Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.

It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.

I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.

I can eat anything. After practice I can stop at McDonald's. I don't have a problem with gaining weight, thank God.

We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.

It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power.

The greatest power in the universe is the power of unity, of oneness. All other powers are secondary. It is the only the only power that outlasts death. Death is the power of separativity; it separates us.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

The secret to global investing is gaining an insight into the hopes and desires of the people who live and work in the countries you invest in.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows.

I'm glad that the fact that people are still getting poisoned by pesticide drift is gaining attention.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this 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.

Wealth and power don’t go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.

Creativity is one of the last remaining legal ways of gaining an unfair advantage over the competition.

People forgot I was an actor before gaining success in anchoring. That was one of the turning phases of my career.

The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.

The Arabs understandably did everything they could to protect their monopoly. Coffee beans were treated before being shipped to ensure they were sterile and could not be used to seed new coffee plants; foreigners were excluded from coffee-producing areas. First to break the Arab monopoly were the Dutch, who displaced the Portuguese as the dominant European nation in the East Indies during the seventeenth century, gaining control of the spice trade in the process and briefly becoming the world's leading commercial power.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.

There are places where there is more power. Just as there is more power in the chakras, there is more power in certain places. We call them places of power. If you spend time in these places, it increases your vibratory power.

In the late '60s, people were saying we need power to, not power over. Power to do, accomplish, create, not power over other people.

I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.

If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.

Open political and economic systems have been gaining ground and there's a good reason for it. They work better.

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but I don't agree with that. I think you have to be corrupted to be corrupted by power.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Sitting on that couch eating and gaining 20 pounds isn't exactly fun - there's only so much you can do.

Painting is of course multifarious, and for all of us the goal is, gaining control without impeding the creative process.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

The power for happiness, for good, for everything we need of life is within each one of us. The power is there - unlimited power.

For loving, working, and creative people to throw off the yoke of power it is necessary to abolish power itself, not merely to make the yoke comfortable. Where some have power, others do not, and the two classes persist. A free society is where all have power-power over and responsibility for their own lives, power and reason to respect the lives of others. This is also a society without classes, a society of human beings, not rulers and the ruled.

There are many ways to store power. You can visit places of power, special locations on the earth that are charged with power.

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Sex is probably the most fun you can have in life without gaining weight or having a hangover the next day.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.