Quotes about pow
powerful fear sacrifice
Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government. Philip Zimbardo
powerful hero people
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil. Philip Zimbardo
powerful hero variables
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. Philip Zimbardo
powerful character compassion
The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play. Philip Zimbardo
powerful thinking creative
There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be. Philip Seymour Hoffman
powerful kids acceptance
The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance. Phil McGraw
powerful guy choices
Usually the male control and domination that tends to be in our genes gets around a powerful woman who has the ability to make choices different from guys, it throws you off and you get frustrated. Lance Henriksen
powerful self wish
A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted. Laini Taylor
powerful prayer math
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself. Lisa Unger
powerful fall love-you
When I fell in love with you... It was nothing like I'd ever known before. It was nearly instant. I think I started falling for you, the moment you shook my hand... It was so powerful. I knew it was wrong, but it was addicting." - Jack Travis Lisa Kleypas
powerful earth want
When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want. Johnny Depp
powerful thinking greed
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers. John Sweeney
power names government
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. John Stuart Mill
power government evil
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. John Stuart Mill
power-of-love
I experience God as the power of love. John Shelby Spong
power-of-love
I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God. John Shelby Spong
powerful healing medicine
Unlike much of orthodox medicine, alternative approaches to healing typically honor the wisdom and capability of the human body. Their goal is often to support and strengthen the powerful healing forces already at work within us. John Robbins
powerful philosophy hands
The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands. John Robbins
powerful commitment hands
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat. John Robbins
powerful meat-consumption vegan
A reduction in meat consumption is the most powerful single act that you can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural resources. John Robbins
power pay tunes
He who pays the piper can call the tunes. John Ray
powerful government individuality
The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good. John Ralston Saul
powerful taken years
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet. John Olver
power body earth
The globe of this earth … [is] … not just a machine but also a organised body as it has a regenerative power. James Hutton
power accomplish seasons
You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships. James Hunter
power might force
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might. James Hunter
powerful lying winning
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win. James Hunt
powerful thinking anxiety
Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression. James Howard Kunstler
powerful blessed names
We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord." John Piper
powerful inspiration passion
God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. John Piper
powerful sheep flesh
It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us. Martin Luther
powerful devil mouths
Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded. Martin Luther
powerful men knowing
O, this faith is a living, busy, active, powerful thing! It is impossible that it should not be ceaselessly doing that which is good. It does not even ask whether good works should be done; but before the question can be asked, it has done them, and it is constantly engaged in doing them. But he who does not do such works, is a man without faith. He gropes and casts about him to find faith and good works, not knowing what either of them is, and yet prattles and idly multiplies words about faith and good works. Martin Luther