Top 1200 Power Structure Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

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

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

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

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

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

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

Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a Great Power we shall soon cease to be a great nation. Let us take warning from the fate of the Great Powers of the past and not burst ourselves with pride .

To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

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

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

What we are entering is a power age, and the importance of the power age lies in its ability, rightly used with the wage motive behind it, to increase and cheapen production so that all of us may have more of this world's goods. The way to liberty, the way to equality of opportunity, the way from empty phrases to actualities, lies through power

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

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

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .

The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

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

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

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

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

'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.

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.

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.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

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.

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

I was four or five, and my mom got all the Power Rangers to come through. I thought it was really them. I started crying tears of joy. It was so amazing. My favorite Power Ranger was the green one. He wasn't in every episode - he was rare, like Based God. He was like the Based God Power Ranger.

Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less.

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity

The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought.

How much power is there in a thousand noisy engines? I tell you, there is more power in a single blade of grass.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

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.

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

There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

I really believe in the power of positive thinking and the collective power of people's thoughts spawning something into becoming reality.

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

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

No matter how much lip service those committed to power (psychopaths) may pay to the principle of equality (empaths), they can never approach their fellow human beings on an equal footing; their relationships with others are defined solely in terms of power and weakness. Therefore, they must accumulate as much power as possible, with the aim of becoming invulnerable and proving this invulnerability.

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

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

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.

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.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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.

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.