Top 1200 Purchasing Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Political power without economic power is sterile.

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

How do you overcome the negative karmas and problems and misery that occur to people who abuse power? You stop abusing power.

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

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

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

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

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

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

Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

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

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

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

Quality combines people power and process power.

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

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

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

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.

A lot of times females are in charge because they kind of have the pussy power. If they say, "I'm you're prostitute," then they mean, "I'm the power."

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Power can be very addictive, and it can be corrosive. And it's important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.

I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.

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

Less power to religion, the greater power to knowledge

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

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.

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

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

The power of love far outweighs the power of will.

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

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute 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

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

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

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A few years ago, the Bose Acoustics Corporation had a new product, the Bose Wave Music System. And their ad campaign for it was not successful until they changed one thing. At the top of the ad they said, "Hear what you've been missing." And that caused the skyrocketing of the interest in purchasing of the product. Why? Because with something new, people are uncertain, and when they are uncertain, they want to avoid losses.

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.

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.

Russia's leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

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.

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

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