Top 1200 Power Of One Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

Nobody has the power to make you miserable . . . unless you choose to give them that power. Choose to enjoy every drop of today!

Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death.

Use power to intelligently apprehend people who might harm you. Use that power to not be afraid. Simply step around them.

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.

When we were going to NYU, I think that was the first time we were aware of the power of our personal style. Not the power of it, but the result of it.

Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.

I was so comfortable with my ballet power, my dancer power, that to have a voice, the comfort with having a voice, is slower to come to me.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

The power of music, and the power of your determination in life, especially when you're playing extreme metal like this... it just conquers. It conquers everything.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

That dreams have power only over your own mind. But with money you can have power over the minds of others

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used - we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest in being the director of an institution that has power.

The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.

Movies have power. Power to impact society and the choices we make. I want to entertain, but I also want to say something to the world.

She had the power to destroy. I had only seen the power to love. When you discovered both, who could figure out what to do with that?

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.

I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.

It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all.

There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

'Your Name''s success told me movies still have the power to connect with society. As a medium, it still has a power that resonates.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

I hope somewhere to break down what seems to be a kind of robotic communication between those in power and those who are understanding power.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

Do not lose power over the what-ifs of your life. These are unlimited and endless. Keep your power in the now, in present time.

My favorite piece of tech gear is my SRM power meter. It's the most accurate power meter on the market.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.