Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Debasish Mridha

Only those who can see, feel, and use the power of love, can enjoy the beauty and ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Joan Didion

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Joseph McCabe

I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo

Dr. Edward Morbius: Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!

Forbidden Planet

Hanna Schmitz: [to Michael] You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

The Reader

Stanley Kowalski: Hey MIIIITCH! Mitch: COMIIING! Blanche DuBois: Gracious! What lung power!

A Streetcar Named Desire

Magneto: [to Rogue] I am so sorry... [forcibly transfers his powers to her]

X-Men

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

Dustin Hoffman

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.

Daniel Keys Moran

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Ackroyd

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

Tyra Banks

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Andy Goldsworthy

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Charles Eastman

For the state by its nature claims sovereignty, the right to an unlimited development of power, determined only by self-interest. It is by nature anarchistic.

Christian Lous Lange