Quotes about power
powerful america track
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution. Eike Batista
powerful code-quality bells
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set? Edsger Dijkstra
powerful machines computer
When we had no computers, we had no programming problem either. When we had a few computers, we had a mild programming problem. Confronted with machines a million times as powerful, we are faced with a gigantic programming problem.
powerful world wealth
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. Eduardo Galeano
power anarchy worst
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. Edward Abbey
powerful knees pads
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
power democracies-have democracy
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. Aristotle
powerful real blood
Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting. Ben Kingsley
power people presses
The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. Alexis de Tocqueville
powerful justice want
As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment (p. 290).
powerful men self
I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to the needs of men in our time, and that I see in it the most powerful guarantee against themselves that remains to them. The minds of the moralists of our day ought to turn, therefore, principally toward it. Even should they judge it imperfect, they would still have to adopt it as necessary.
powerful america democracy
Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.
powerful men poverty
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
powerful heart humble
There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honored. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom.
power car structure
Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars. Alexandra Paul
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In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. William Henry Moody
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. Nancy Gibbs
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If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.
power recognize sell
We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds. Nicky Oppenheimer
power government historical
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. Woodrow Wilson
power zen
There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is. Christine Ebersole
power urban
In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power. Meles Zenawi
power soon themselves
Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing. James Howard Kunstler
powerful people naked
The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful. Alan Cohen
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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
power deprived
Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
powerful action force
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Albert Einstein
powerful educational science
I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.
powerful imagination boundaries
Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries
powerful nuclear driving
There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.
powerful stupid imagination
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.
powerful world fallen-angels
The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.