Quotes of: Power-corrupts Keyword

There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

Goldwin Smith

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

Jacky Ickx

My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'

Nancy Lublin

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

Stefan Zweig

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Anansi Boys

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

Arguably: Selected Essays

To be powerful, a kiss should make a journey, be its own story--begin with hesitation, move to realization, then melt into bliss.

The Actor and the Housewife

So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.

The Age of Innocence

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful.

Amplified

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

Anthem

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The Art of Power

Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

Auguste Comte And Positivism

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

The Art of Power

The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and .

The Age of Reason

Saying good-bye properly afforded me a measure of peace. It was a binding of a different sort, absent of the earth's power, but still hard proof that there is magic yet in the world.

Hammered

She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.

Hearts Under Siege

Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said "That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.

A Hero For WondLa

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history...

The Inner Circle

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

Ignite

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl