Top 1200 Power Struggle Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power

Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken.

Beautiful revelations of power are often written by the guy who got kicked around and didn’t have any power.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not always that clear.

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

We are a nation founded on distrust of government power, and questioning that power is essential to promoting transparency and accountability.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.

Our country needs power for its economic growth, and clean, green power is the best option.

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

In a democracy, the citizens are supposed to have all the power, and the government is supposed to be the means by which the citizens exercise that power. But when you have a surveillance state, the state has all the power, and citizens have very little.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Power is not anything that's given away. Power is something you have to compete for.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

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

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

The competition of social power with State power is always disadvantaged, since the State can arrange the terms of competition to suit itself, even to the point of outlawing any exercise of social power whatever in the premises; in other words, giving itself a monopoly.

John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

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

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The love of power comes from a lack of the most important power, that of living a life of eternity with every creature.

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

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

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

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

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

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration' or deep, flowing vision, and where he had to struggle along on mere intellect.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

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

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

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

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Since day one, my inception, when I came into the world - I had my eyes on power. The WWE championship is power.

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

I don't have power or money and one-sided media support or the inclination to stoop to any level for the sake of power.

My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them. And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power. We've seen it time after time after time.