Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

Strangers were a fairytale full of possibilities not yet corrupted by reality while caregivers were the reality – and everything that couldn't be counted upon.

Donna Lynn Hope

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.

Pauline Hanson

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

Alexei Navalny

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Aristotle

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai E. Stevenson

So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered, we will accomplish but little, or fail entirely. When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the pow...

Christian D. Larson

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Collateral

All problems are illusions of the mind.

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

Malcolm X

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre de Fermat

Corbulo: a name to conjure with, a name to follow into battle, wherever he led; a name to have a man marching to the gates of Rome, crying Imperator! until the crowds and the idiot senate and the corrupt wax-brains of the Praetorian Guard and every o...

Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth

And how are such wars to be waged? The wise prince will begin by assuming the enemy to be infinitely corruptible and infinitely stupid, since stupidity and corruption are the chief characteristics of man. So the prince will make himself friends in th...

The Terror

I still find my corrupt heart longing for tomorrow's bread. I can make a good argument to the Lord about how effective I can be if He would supply me with enough advance funds. It's a little frightening to pray for TODAY's bread. That means I must pr...

The Yhwh Style

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. Tha...

Steven Erikson

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

Ken Stott

Knowledge is power, wisdom is power with a purpose.

Solitaire Parke

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

James Hansen

Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.

Raoul Vaneigem

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

The Essence of Christianity