Top 1200 Thirst For Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

The people of Montana understand that you will never be able to take enough money from them and give it to the government to quench that thirst. The government will always spend more money.

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

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

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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."

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.

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 .

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sex IS power. Identity is power. In western culture, there are no nonexploitative relationships. Everyone has killed in order to live.

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?

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

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

In time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.

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

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

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

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

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

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

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' .

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.

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

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

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.

Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.