Top 1200 Power Of Persuasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

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

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

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

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

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

We have all been told that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I have long thought this is nonsense.

It may come as a surprise to some academics, but there is a marked relationship between economic power and political power.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff.

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.