Quotes about power
powerful ideas roots
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished. Howard Zinn
powerful tools purpose
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. Howard Gossage
power fancy poet
The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet. Horace
power political growing
every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power. Hannah Arendt
power self political
power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.
power violence form
The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
powerful thinking affair
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
power people political
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
power government evil
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
powerful class achievement
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is modest only on this one point, however, because this officially nonexistent bureaucracy simultaneously attributes the crowning achievements of history to its own infallible leadership. Though its existence is everywhere in evidence, the bureaucracy must be invisible as a class. As a result, all social life becomes insane. Guy deBord
powerful class claims
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.
power throws tight
He throws a tight spiral, he can throw it a long way and he has a lot of power in his arm. I feel like if we are open, we are going to get the ball. Derrick Williams
power
He said we have to take it to them. But they got another one on the power play.
power
Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. Adolf Hitler
powerful men noble-man
The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard. Friedrich Nietzsche
powerful heart sacrifice
Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.
power rose gains
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
power resistance tendencies
The will to power can express itself only against resistances; it seeks that which resists it--this is the native tendency of theamoeba when it extends its pseudopodia and gropes around.
power facts instinct
Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.
power goal suffering
Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
powerful men shining
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).
power dynamite humans
I am not a human being, I am dynamite.
power evil degrees
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
power style conviction
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him George Bernard Shaw
power fool strive
I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
power men intelligence
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
power cynical belief
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
powerful hate feelings
How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control. Gena Showalter
powerful artist personality
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible. Galen Rowell
powerful lying men
We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the other, there would be no danger of anyone, least of all the elect, being deceived by lying wonders. It is the good men, good once, we must hope good still, who are to do the work of Anti-Christ and so sadly to crucify the Lord afresh.... Bear in mind this feature of the last days, that this deceitfulness arises from good men being on the wrong side. Frederick William Faber
powerful writing people
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write. Franz Kafka
powerful lying book
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait. Erich Maria Remarque
powerful father acceptance
When the theory of evolution destroyed the picture of God as the supreme Creator, confidence in God as the all-powerful Father of man fell with it, although many were able to combine a belief in God with the acceptance of the Darwinian theory. Erich Fromm