Top 1200 Real Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Anyone who knows how difficult it is to keep a secret among three men - particularly if they are married - knows how absurd is the idea of a worldwide secret conspiracy consciously controlling all mankind by its financial power; in real, clear analysis.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

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

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

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

Our need for innovation has shifted power closer to the source of that power-Us. We are the future.

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

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

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

I don't hate things, but I'm turned off by arrogance. I also don't like power for the sake of power.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

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

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.

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.

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

The power of Liverpool Football Club is the collective. We always do everything together; this is our power.

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

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

Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.

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.

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

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.

Knowing how to wield psychic power leads to real solutions. Your feminine nature is strong, not weak. Your psychic gifts are your tools and landmarks that will allow you to take charge and further your own goals.

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.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

I think art, especially literature, has the particular power to immerse the viewer or reader into another world. This is especially powerful in literature, when a reader lives the experience of the characters. So if the characters are human and real enough, then readers will feel empathy for them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've fought a lot of guys with power. It takes more than power to win a fight.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

For presidential power to meaningfully expand, it is not enough for a president to simply make a power grab.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a greater power and more real than vengeance. The second proclaimed the earth to be a sphere revolving in its course around the sun. These affirmations were made in the face of all evidence sacred to the contrary.

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.

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

Love has the power to...cure, to heal, to calm, to change and to unite. Use this power often.

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

This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.

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.