Quotes about pow
powerful pay rich
The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated. Malcolm Muggeridge
powerful hate america
It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful. Malcolm Muggeridge
powerful men white-man
...What we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state. We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do. Malcolm X
powerful black want
When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation. Malcolm X
powerful men talking
I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.' Malcolm X
power faces steps
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. Malcolm X
powerful men thinking
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy - the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell. Malcolm X
powerful mean america
When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison. Malcolm X
powerful men differences
What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason. Malcolm X
powerful research world
Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight. Malcolm X
powerful hate media-control
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X
powerful thinking community
What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think. Malcolm Gladwell
powerful mass-destruction weapons
The Truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction. Mahatma Gandhi
power evil soil
The moment the cultivators of the soil realize their power, the evil of Zamindari will be sterilized. Mahatma Gandhi
power mysterious indefinable
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. Mahatma Gandhi
powerful united-states east
The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa. John Abizaid
power president aristocracy
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate. John Adams
power checks trusted
Power must never be trusted without a check. John Adams
powerful media play
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms. Jackson Katz
power understanding products
Power is the by-product of understanding. Jacob Bronowski
power magic opposition
The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge. Jacob Bronowski
powerful believe people
Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time. Jack Welch
powerful men guy
I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all. Harvey Keitel
power stars
You've got all these movie stars who live here. Do you think they would go long without power?
powers received selected
All I know is the powers that be selected us to be in this game. We just received the trophy.
power men clay
Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. Eric Hoffer
power corruption young
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us. Eric Hoffer
powerful responsibility hands
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Eric Hoffer
power-corrupts inhumanity inherent
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. Eric Hoffer
powerful hatred society
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance. Eric Hoffer
powerful men law
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. Eric Hoffer
power evil promise
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. Eric Hoffer
powerful asking-why suffering
The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?' Emo Philips