Top 1200 Power Of One Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.

In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

The first step toward liberation of any group is to use the power in hand... And the power in hand is the vote.

My strokes are safer when I hit full power. They are unsafe when I hold back; it's more that I force myself to go full power all the time.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

My job as energy and climate change secretary is to both power the country and protect the planet. Nuclear power delivers on both of these objectives.

With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.

People in power make the path to power. It means that we will always get the same system, and it's one that is not necessarily in the interest of people's lives.

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

There are guys on Tour who hit the ball further than me. I always thought it was important to have power, but more important to have power in reserve.

A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.

Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt me.

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

I didn't get that power from gunz..coz there's no gunz in jail..I got that power from books and from thinking and strategizing...... That's what I want little niggaz to see.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

To rebuild confidence in the power of people working together to create something better, we must give people the power to do precisely that for themselves.

If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation of such powers [to the President] would have struck, not only at the fabric of our Constitution, but at the foundation of all well organized and well checked governments. The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted.

God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

The handover of power to [Dmitry] Medvedev was rather painless, everybody thought that the waves would calm automatically. By now, it's quite clear that [Vladimir] Putin doesn't want to relinquish the levers of power.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.