What Is Power Quotes
African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.
Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others.
The truth is there is more than enough love, creative ideas, power, joy, happiness to go around.
LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.
That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)
People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.
Love is God's essence; Power but his attribute: therefore is his love greater than his power.
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.
An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding.
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.
In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.
Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.
We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart; and as I gave way unto it I found the evil weakening in me and the good raised up
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art.
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.
We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.
The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.
Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.
There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men - the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.