Quotes about power
power limits belief
The only limits of power are the bounds of belief. Harold Wilson
powerful evil sick
The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than that of the permanent nature of good, and the transient nature of evil. Harriet Martineau
power civilization other-half
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
powerful fists jem-and-scout
hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch Harper Lee
powerful simple men
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
powerful trying ems
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch
powerful pride tkam
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
powerful tkam people
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
powerful positivity sunshine
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
power waiting streets
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. Gregory Corso
powerful writing sweat
as I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K."-a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets-I AM AN ANTICHRIST-Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today-listening to the way Johnny Rotten tears at his lines, and then hurls the pieces at the world; recalling the all-consuming smile he produced as he sang-my back stiffens; I pull away even as my scalp begins to sweat. Greil Marcus
powerful regret people
Powerful people have no regrets. Gregory David Roberts
powerful games trying
My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful. Hope Solo
powerful trying way
More than ever, it's very apparent that we are strapped for natural resources. We configure and reconfigure to try and find a way to maintain natural assets, when, ultimately, we are overlooking the most abundant, dynamic, and powerful resource we have available to us - our youth. Ian Somerhalder
powerful world moments
There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states. Ian Bremmer
powerful tools institutions
There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage. Iain Duncan Smith
powerful constitution-of-the-united-states paper
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. Howard Zinn
powerful pride thinking
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dealing with a problem is to work only among the alternatives which the most powerful in society put forth. It is as if we are all confined to a, b, c, or d in the multiple choice test, when we know there is another possible answer. American society, although it has more freedom of expression than most societies in the world, thus sets limits beyond which respectable people are not supposed to think or speak.
powerful lying historical
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
powerful believe differences
Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.
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.
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.
powerful fighting europe
I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all. Gottfried Leibniz
powerful expression personality
A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.