Top 1200 Lust For Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

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.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

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.

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

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

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

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

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 power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

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

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

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

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

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 seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

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

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.

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.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

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

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

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

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

The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

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

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough 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.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

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