Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

Kavita Ramdas

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

Elizabeth Warren

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Susan Sarandon

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love is a very powerful emotion and when a break-up is unexpected, it's very hard to get over.

Leona Lewis

The Joker: Haven't you ever heard of the healing power of laughter?

Batman

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

Bryant H. McGill

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

Billie Jean King

Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.

Elizabeth Warren

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Helen Gurley Brown

There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.

Kevin O'Leary

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

Regina King

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Glenn Greenwald

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Russell Baker

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Mohamed ElBaradei

What I learned then was there is a certain power in a three piece band. The more people you put on that stage, the more diluted it becomes.

Greg Lake

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

George MacDonald

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

George Orwell

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Schultz

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Greg Walden