Quotes about pow
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.
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.
power-corrupts inhumanity inherent
The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.
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.
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.
power evil promise
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
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
power government intimidating
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. James F. Cooper
powerful men class
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.
powerful years lifting-weights
I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor. Jake Pavelka
powerful men he-man
The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. Friedrich Schiller
power persuasive rhetoric
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
power government hands
They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. Franklin D. Roosevelt
power america way
We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
powerful views clouds
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world. George Friedman
powerful blood people
Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music. George Gershwin
powerful creativity appreciate
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity. George Gilder
powerful president tests
Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans. Jon Meacham
powerful book kids
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male. Jon Hamm
powerful white profound
People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful white male
powerful buddhism mindfulness
Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant. Jon Kabat-Zinn
powerful believe different
If we truly believe in an all-powerful God, then there's going to be beauty and truth to be found in all sorts of different places. Jon Foreman
powerful sun
The sun is so powerful, that without it we are nothing. Jon Anderson
powerful unique understanding
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous. Lynn Margulis
powerful responsibility artist
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. Luis Bunuel
powerful thinking interesting
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema. Louis Leterrier
powerful today instruction
What did you do today to receive your instruction? Louis Pasteur
powerful work haste
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Lord Chesterfield
power support president
There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton
powerful father erratic
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered. John Cleese
powerful men intelligent
Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment. John Brown
powerful rights ideas
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.