Top 1200 Power Of Persuasion Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power, true power, comes from within. Not without. (Nick)

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

The countries made themselves independent from Spain, but only changed owners, who stayed in positions of power were the criollos, the Spanish descendants who were the new administrators of power and wealth in the country. And those families for generations have maintained themselves in positions of power. Latin America founded itself on everyone being equal, but in reality we aren't.

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that's just how it is.

Power is not just about the chair. The public is power.

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Quality combines people power and process power.

The real power of money is the power to give it away.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

The power of incumbency and the power of money is just overwhelming.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

The power is within you. It always has been. How far are you willing to expand the horizons of your thinking and stir that power awake?

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.

I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.

Music doesn't hurt anybody, that's what's amazing. Everything is in there, every kind of human emotion, from the darkest to the lightest. And it has power. Unbelievable power.

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

Nothing has any power except the power that you give it.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all the passions." Because it can only be satisfied by power over others, government is its favorite field of exercise. Business offers a kind of power, but only to the very successful at the top, and without the dominion and titles and red carpets and motorcycle escorts of public office.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

The only power that the critical voice has is the power that you give it.

The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

This has all the appearance of a foreign power trying to undermine structures of legitimacy of an American election. That is a serious matter. If I were the media, I would be wary of using anything that came out of these document dumps which serves the purpose of a foreign power. But, at the very least, Americans have to discount this. This is an attempt to hijack and change American democracy by a foreign power. It can't be accepted.