Top 1200 Power Hungry Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.

When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.

The 'religious spirit,' it's demonic, and it attempts to substitute a demonic power or a fleshly power for the power of the Holy Spirit. And the 'religious spirit' is more concerned with what we look like than what we really are.

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and to compel them to act against their own voluntary choice. Only a government holds that power. The nature of governmental action is: coercive action. The nature of political power is: the power to force obedience under threat of physical injury-the threat of property expropriation, imprisonment, or death.

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means) to do one's bidding. One can possess the means of power: physical strength, armaments, and money. But authority must be performed. Authority refers to one's ability to gain the trust and willing obedience of others. While power rests on intimidation, authority survives through inspiration.

I live by three rules: I eat when I'm hungry, sleep when I'm tired and scratch when I itch.

I need healthy options around, or else if I get hungry, I'll go straight for a cookie.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

Me and my brother are both hungry. We want the fans and everyone to know that we're the best in the world.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to poets. ... Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked. No, we poets have to go naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

You don't decide to paint. It's like getting hungry and going to the kitchen to eat. It's a need, not a choice.

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

All your power is in your awareness of that power, and through holding that power in your consciousness.

In a lot of First Nations and different rural communities, kids go to school hungry.

And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.

Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

I snack on almonds and always make sure I have some with me. I hate being hungry.

Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces , is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind , the incarnation of the spirit .

Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

I was never hungry for this kind of attention; it was the love of performing that got me interested in acting.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

By the time a meal I'm preparing rolls around, I'm usually so full from tasting that I'm not hungry any more.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

I'm passionate about breakfast. I wake up hungry, so I always eat a bagel.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I am definitely hungry, not only to get better myself, but to win a Super Bowl.

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's considerable rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty years.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.