Top 1200 Staying Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

We are one people, and we cannot let the power of darkness or Power, Priviledge, and Control - destroy the Light.

We will not leave this place until our comrades are free. We are the power here. We are the power.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

Gods have great power, but only humans have creativity, the power to change history.

People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Our defining gift as humans is our power to choose, including our power to choose our collective future. It is a gift that comes with a corresponding moral responsibility to use that power in ways that work to the benefit of all people and the whole of life.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.

The only power our problems can have over us is the power we give to them.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a cicle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.

There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality.

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

What gives you real power is when you know your power. And I feel quite powerful.

It is every Indian's dream that J&K is happy & there is prosperity. We have to work for this, be it in power or not in power.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities.