Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Meditations

Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.

On the Shortness of Life

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

Joshua Lederberg

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Henry Miller

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Nassau William Senior

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

O. Henry

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

Olivia Wilde

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

Patricia Amis

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

Phil Cooke

My favourite superhero? I have a soft spot for Batman, because he doesn't have any super powers - he's just a person. And he's pretty dark.

Peter Dinklage

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter F.Drucker

Jesus didn’t die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.

Paula Hendricks

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Peter Jackson

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.

Peter Mansfield

Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think.

Pope Benedict XVI

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Philip Zimbardo

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Quintilian

There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.

Rita Coolidge

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan