Top 1200 Power Corruption Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

I belong to the film industry and it's the only industry that has no corruption.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

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

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

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

Watching the economies in various parts of the world, I believe that there is scope for improvement everywhere. There is some corruption and inefficiency everywhere.

When you show a corrupt police officer in a film, you don't mean that all policemen are corrupt. You just point to the fact that there is corruption in the system.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

It starts with organizing the corruption and it ends with organizing the terror.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

I will keep repeating, that if you find me guilty of corruption then take the strictest action against me.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.