Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: power

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Never underestimate the power of anyone's story... anyone's life.

Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

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.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.

Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people.

It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

I love long power walks in the countryside.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

No matter what has happened, you too have the power to enjoy yourself.

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

The point of journalism is to hold people in positions of power accountable.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.