Top 1200 Lust For Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.
Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect.
No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind
I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: 'To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.' It's just time.
I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
I don't think there's anything like love at first sight. What happens is actually lust at first sight.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.
Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.
Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.
For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.
Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.
As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.
God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.
It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence
The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.
There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.
Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.
It is every Indian's dream that J&K is happy & there is prosperity. We have to work for this, be it in power or not in power.
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.
We have power not just with our voices, but we have economic power in what we do for a living, too.
Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!
We need to believe in the power of the American people, not the power of the Biden Administration.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.
The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.
There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.
Our nation is somewhat sad, but we're angry. There's a certain level of blood lust, but we won't let it drive our reaction. We're steady, clear-eyed and patient, but pretty soon we'll have to start displaying scalps.
We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.
We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
