Top 1200 Power Over Others Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Money is one form of power. But what is more powerful is financial education. Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth. The reason positive thinking alone does not work is because most people went to school and never learned how money works, so they spend their lives working for money.

Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.

To make a quick buck, but over time, if you're not creating value for others, customers, society, isn't going to let you be around.

When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!

Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.

The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

You've got all these characters and yet, you're hovering over one character like a fly over a stinky diaper. Realize that you've got a kickass superpower: you can possess and take-over anybody inside the story. With the power of Point-of-View, you can drag us along for the ride. You can shove us into their eyes, their minds, you can force us to piggyback on their experiences past and present. Sometimes untangling a knotted-up tale means looking at it from different eyes: what better eyes than those of the other characters inside the story?

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news they touch us all personally, some more than others and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

When I'm in the second attention, when I stop looking through eyes that have been formed for me by others, I see something else. I see power.

I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others.

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others.

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

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

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

The single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear. While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and upward, but, rather, drags us down and chains us to the past. Freeing ourselves from fear is a loving intention because, as fear subsides, we are better able to access the soft, sweet power of our hearts, which naturally leads to loving ourselves and others more freely and completely.

Power to the people' can only be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never have power until they disappear as a 'people.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.

The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.

How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

What cities, as great as this, have... promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others... Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.

Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

I wanted to understand. I'm not here to support one, but I am here to criticize all, on a principled position. I very much value the position of counter power. I think this is where ethics should be, in front of power as I said in Radical Reform. The power of counter-power is very important.

I didn't want anyone to have control over how people saw me. I wanted to have that power myself.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights, and provide for certain common needs ... A state on the other hand, is a coercive organization asserting or enjoying a monopoly over the use of physical force in some geographic area and exercising power over its subjects.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.