Quotes about power
powerful real evil
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real. James A. Baldwin
power morality subtle
But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
power insomnia insecurity
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared. Christopher Hitchens
powerful cat eye
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.
powerful trying wish
The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try. Gary Zukav
powerful
You are only as powerful as that which you stand.
powerful taken over-you
The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.
powerful soul five-senses
We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are becoming aware of ourselves as immortal souls, as powerful creators and co-creators. We are becoming aware that we experience what we create, and there is no escape from that.
powerful mind use
The most powerful thing we have is our psyche. And to use our minds, we must be clear, vulnerable and open, which will take us to places we didn't even know were there or couldn't imagine ourselves going. Gary Busey
powerful rights support
Obama often criticizes policies that place the interests of the powerful ahead of the powerless. But through his administration's support of abortion rights, Obama shows his lack of empathy for society's most powerless. Gary Bauer
power growth survival
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. Friedrich Nietzsche
powerful satan accomplices
If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.
power government support
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded. Franklin Pierce
powerful matter literature
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. Jeanette Winterson
powerful literature language
That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
powerful writing soul
Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.
powerful stupid school
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
powerful thinking four
I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes. Jim Courier
powerful belief destructive
Belief is such a powerful thing - but because it is, it can also be very destructive and it's very easily manipulated. Jena Malone
powerful media television
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented. Jim Fowler
powerful knowledge knowing
Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing
powerful two numbers
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.
powerful jogging feels
Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky! Jennifer Hudson
power decisions-we-make work-relationships
We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it's about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
powerful successful college
The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. Jennifer Granholm
powerful discipline doctrine
The effect of Judaism's vigorous promotion of monotheism, and the dignity that this doctrine conferred on all humankind, as created in God's image, coupled with the discipline, warnth and security offered by the Jewish way of life, cannot be overestimated as a powerful catalyst for the undermining and eventual destruction of Graeco-Roman paganism. Jeff Cohen
powerful ignorance reality
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality. Jeff Buckley
powerful mouths word-of-mouth
Word of mouth is very powerful. Jeff Bezos
powerful men violence
It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well. Jeff Bridges
powerful inspire powerful-god
All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others? Jean-Paul Sartre
powerful war rich
When the rich [and politically powerful] make war, it's the poor [and politically weak] who die.
powerful commitment silence
Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us into silence every word became as precious as a declaration of principle; because we were persecuted, each of our gestures carried the weight of a commitment.
powerful philosophical thinking
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.