Empowering Power Quotes: Harnessing Strength and Inner Potential - Page 23

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people.

Power and position often make a man trifle with th... -George A. Smith

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power i... -Charles de Gaulle

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.... -Mary Daly

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they st... -Masha Gessen

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it's my job to get that message out.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that we have in our hands. Telling specific stories about personal matters can start the debate that is needed today, and that connect you with realities that you had no idea were connected.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I cured with the power that came through me.... -Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

I love the English language. Words have power.... -John C. Bogle

I love the English language. Words have power.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. B... -W. H. Murray

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle ... -Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Your dreams are what define your individuality. They have the power to give you wings and make you fly high.

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