Top 1200 True Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion.

Nobody gives you power. Real power is something you take.

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

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

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

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

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.

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

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

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.

There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix

We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

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

Procreative power & priesthood power are shared by husband & wife

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

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

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

Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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.

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

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

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

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

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

All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can't be a leader.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

There's so much written about my family, some true, mostly not true, and I felt that it's not something I want to add to.

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.

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

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

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

The most enduring sort of power is realizing the power within.

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

If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

The church and religion has lost tremendous power and positive power.

All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.

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

Two things have been bothering me for a long time. The first is the tendency of people in general - and that includes Christians - to "relativize" religion. Any religious belief is only "true for," so to speak - true for you or true for me or true for those people on the other side of the world. Second, I've been bothered by how poorly believers understand their own Story. They have bits and pieces, of course, but they're missing enough that they can easily become prey to ideas that sound spiritual, but end up being foolishness in the end.

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

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.