Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
The stage is my first love. It gives me immense self-satisfaction, a sort of power because a stage actor carries the audience along; it’s a live performance; spontaneity is its soul.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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.
To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
In truth, I have done nothing alone. God has called me and has been my pilot. The Holy Spirit has been my comforter, my guide, and my power source.
If we all give our power to one person, that’s what the world will be. If we all decide to make the world a beautiful place, it’ll be a beautiful place.
Everything is generated through your own will power.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Order is power.
A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Power is competence.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.
It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.
Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
As a businessperson, I don’t have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Money: power at its most liquid.
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
The best people to have power are the ones who don’t want it.
Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Religion is never the problem; it’s the people who use it to gain power.
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
The essential elements of giving are power and love – activity and affection – and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
When I finished ‘True History of the Kelly Gang,’ I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
Habit allows us to go from ‘before’ to ‘after,’ to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious – and rightly so – for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.
