Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: power

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

There is more power in unity than division.

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

The power of social media is it forces necessary change.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

The only power you have is the word no.

Knowledge is power.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

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.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Power is paradoxical.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

Never underestimate the power of intrinsic values. They inspire every struggle for a better world.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.