Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: power

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

I've been kind of embracing my own power and really getting in touch with my inner goddess.

It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule. Certain ethnic, religious, racial or indigenous groups were deliberately privileged over others in order to create a sense of investment in upholding the power structure.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

As I have always said, those closest to the pain should be closest to the power.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

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.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.