Top 1200 Power Of Choice Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

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.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

In 2006, the number of children in targeted school choice programs nationwide will reach six digits for the first time, representing a 40 percent increase in the number of children in targeted school choice programs and an even bigger increase in the amount of public funding.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

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

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making their own decision; it denies them their freedom of choice; and it treats them as a means to an end. When God allows people to say 'no' to him, he actually respects and dignifies them.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

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

Make the choice to do something because it engages your heart as well as your mind. Make the choice because it engages all of you.

I think that to believe is to acknowledge that it's a choice in that present tense and that doubt is always an option. You’re not dealing with a fact like one plus one equals two—I’m gonna choose to believe that. It’s kind of one of those things where you are choosing to believe that someone loves you. That is always going to be your choice. So for me, I think that’s what makes the faith that I have volatile and explosive and dangerous and troubling. That’s what most of my songs are about.

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 .

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices.

Thus even supposedly unadulterated facts of observation already are interfused with all sorts of conceptual pictures, model concepts, theories or whatever expression you choose. The choice is not whether to remain in the field of data or to theorize; the choice is only between models that are more or less abstract, generalized, near or more remote from direct observation, more or less suitable to represent observed phenomena.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

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.

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.

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.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

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

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

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.

The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.