Top 1200 Legitimate Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.

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

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

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.

The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to occupation and the creation of an independent and viable state, living in peace and security with its neighbors.

'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 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.

As with the government failures that made 9/11 possible, neglecting to prevent the crash of '08 was a sin of omission - less the result of deregulation per se than of disbelief in financial regulation as a legitimate mechanism.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

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.

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.

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

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

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

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.

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

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

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their 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 point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

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

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.

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' .

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.

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

Actors are tough because they're not used to challenging questions - other than from paparazzi. And so you just ask one perfectly legitimate question, but one that they're not comfortable answering, and all of a sudden they look at you, and you're the paparazzi.

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

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

She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.

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.

[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.

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

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

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

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 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.

I use Spam Arrest because of the amount of junk mail I get. Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Black men constantly receive the message that they can't make it in life through using legitimate means, and the only way they gain society's respect is through the street game.

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

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 and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

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

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.