Quotes of: Abuse-of-power Keyword

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

George R. R. Martin

John Wayne represents more force, more power than anyone else on the screen.

Howard Hawks

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

John Adams

We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.

Joschka Fischer

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Jeff Goodell

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

John Piper

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Jill Scott

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Loretta Lynch

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

Michael Burgess

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

Paul Wellstone

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

Stephen Kinzer

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

Marcus Aurelius

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Arundhati Roy

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

Aaron Swartz

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

Carol P. Christ

It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you.

Life

Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

Vinod Khosla

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren G. Bennis