Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Jim Lehrer

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Ulrich Beck

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Brene Brown

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

Suze Orman

The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Tariq Ramadan

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Yoko Ono

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Colin Wilson

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

Daley Thompson

It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.

Ivan Krastev

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Jeffrey Jones

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

Orhan Pamuk

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Thurgood Marshall

I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

Samina Baig

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Francoise Sagan

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Demian Bichir

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

George Ayittey

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

Iqbal Quadir

Almost everything I tried out for I pretty much got. I landed Power Rangers, and the rest is history.

Thuy Trang