Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

John Oliver

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Joyce Carol Oates

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

Jerry Saltz

'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.

John Patrick Shanley

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Jasper Sole

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

Desiderius Erasmus

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

Daniel Goleman

The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.

Dorothy Hamill

Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.

David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

Douglas Leone

Persistence with hope has infinite power, it can create new ways when there is no way.

Debasish Mridha

Every thought has the power to spread its effects on other minds as a wave can spread all over the ocean.

Debasish Mridha

Only those who can see, feel, and use the power of love, can enjoy the beauty and ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

I was a reluctant convert, and I am by no means a zealot. But the evidence is compelling: to write off wind-power is either ill-informed or dishonest.

Jonathan Dimbleby

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

Joan Didion

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction.

Jen Lancaster

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joel Barlow

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Joseph McCabe

I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Philip Zimbardo

Dr. Edward Morbius: Guilty! Guilty! My evil self is at that door, and I have no power to stop it!

Forbidden Planet