Quotes about power
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.
powerful heart christ
O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you. George Whitefield
powerful men humanity
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction. George Will
powerful writing men
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. George Sand
powerful desire stranger
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. George Saunders
powerful thinking ideas
That's a question best put to Bernie Sanders himself, but I think that he will probably put forward ideas that are related to the corrupting role of Citizens United and Buckley versus Valeo court decisions and the need to restore a by-and-for-the-people republic envisioned in our Constitution instead of the of-, by- and for-the-most-powerful system that we have right now. Jeff Merkley
powerful showing-up essentials
Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful. Jeff Olson
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
powerful book ideas
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.