Top 1200 Position Of Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

[Eugene Smith] was always writing these diatribes about truth, and how he wanted to tell the truth, the truth, the truth. It was a real rebel position. It was kind of like a teenager's position: why can't things be like they should be? Why can't I do what I want? I latched on to that philosophy. One day I snapped, hey, you know, I know a story that no one's ever told, never seen, and I've lived it. It's my own story and my friends' story.

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

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 took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.

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.

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.

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' .

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

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.

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

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

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

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

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

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 .

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.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

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

'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.

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

[Erwin Rommel] explained why in short words, what the two generals' message and then he explained his position and he gave some reason for his position. And then he said, "The ten minutes are over, and I have to leave now." Then my father said goodbye. He also told that us that in I think twenty or thirty minutes, I don't remember, "You will get a telephone call telling you that I have died of stroke."

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

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

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

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

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

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.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

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

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.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

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.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.