Top 1200 World Power Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

Around the world, we see the results of exploitation which destroys much without taking future generations into account. Protecting the world's forests; stemming desertification and erosion; avoiding the spread of toxic substances harmful to man, animals and plants; protecting the atmosphere; all these can be accomplished only through active and wise cooperation, without borders or political power plays.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

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.

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

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

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

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

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

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

We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Let's all recognize that, in a world full of disgusting dictators, Bashar Assad maybe ranks at the top. This is a guy, in order to hang on to power, has allowed 400,000 people in his own country to be killed and millions to be displaced. Our goal, long term, has got to work with countries around the world. We cannot do it unilaterally. We've got to work with countries around the world for a political solution to get rid of this guy and to finally bring peace and stability to this country, which has been so decimated.

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

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

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

We all need to be astute in sending and reading power cues, so that we can prevent ourselves - and the world - from being manipulated by evil geniuses like Hitler.

All around the world, leaders are gaining more power. That's what this pandemic demands: a coordinated whole-of-nation approach with a powerful conductor at its center.

No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

I believe 'Lean In' has the power to change not only our outlook but also the world and that it will become a touchstone publication for a generation of women.

What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.

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

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

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

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

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

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

The world is not moved by love or actions that are of human creation. And the church is not empowered to live differently from any other gathering of people without the Holy Spirit. But when believers live in the power of the Spirit, the evidence in their lives is supernatural. The church cannot help but be different, and the world cannot help but notice.

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

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

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

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.

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