Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.

Volunteer 4 Africa

More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Some positive thinkers get consistent powerful results almost deserving of a scientific formula

Victor Manan Nyambala

We're exposed to ideas everywhere. The world is full of ideas. I think that television is a pretty powerful medium in that regard.

Win Butler

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.

Wentworth Miller

Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?

Yiyun Li

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

Azim Premji

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work.

Fareed Zakaria

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Hannah Cowley

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

Meghan Trainor

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Toni Morrison

It isn't a coincidence that the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat happened after September 11. Gujarat is also one place where the toxic waste of the World Trade Center is being dumped right now. This waste is being dumped in Gujarat, and then taken of ...

The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

i have been told many times by family, friends, colleagues and strangers that I, a black African Muslim lesbian, am not included in this vision; that my dreams are a reflection of my upbringing in a decadent, amoral Western society that has corrupted...

Fairytales for Lost Children

most common people oft he market-place much prefer light literature to improving books. The problem is, that so many romances contain slanderous anecdotes about sovereigns and ministers or cast aspersions upon man’s wives and daughters so that they...

The Golden Days

Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a “leap” that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on be...

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Stop being so greedy, and so selfish. Realize that there is more to the world than your big houses and fancy stores. People are starving and you worry about oil for your cars. Babies are dying of thirst and you search the fashion pages for the latest...

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption

Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in their international scouting tours of exemplary art galleries (a practice pioneered by Velma Kimbell, the founder’s widow, in 1964). Those groups no doubt respond to the...

Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank Lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, I And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit...

Selected Poems

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a h...

The Weight of Glory

Andrew Largeman: I think we've corrupted this innocent girl enough for one day! Sam: I'm not innocent. Andrew Largeman: Yes, you are! That's what I like about you, okay? And I don't want this guy taking you to some sketchy quarry in the middle of New...

Garden State