People dream of making the virtuous powerful, so they can depend upon them. Since they cannot do that, people choose to make… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility… — Steve Alten Copy Share Image
You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man” — David Crockett Copy Share Image
Wealth begins . . . in giving on all sides by tools and auxiliaries the greatest possible extension to our powers; as… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sex only makes people more like themselves. A powerful, secretive woman becomes only more powerful and more secretive in the throes of… — Bee Ridgway Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
I don't think comedy really does change people's minds; I think you can only get someone who is almost ready to change… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political… — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Power gets legitimated through schemas; if there is an underlying schema that says that men are more decisive than women, this schema… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
Local prosecutors must use the power and discretion afforded them to carry out sweeping reforms that will protect the public - especially… — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for… — Eike Batista Copy Share Image
“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken… — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
Truly strong people are not arrogant. Cowardice on the other hand causes arrogance. Cowards hide behind their own power and authority. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Evil wants you to think that its power is absolute, endless. It wants to so make you quake and quiver that all… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
When I think about power, it's not about having money. It's about changing people's lives, changing people's moods. To me, it's a… — Serge Ibaka Copy Share Image
The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
It takes courage to sit on a jury. How many of us want to decide the fate of another person's life or… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“We all have the power to change the world... It's just the person who is willing to do something about it who… — Tanner Di Bella Copy Share Image
Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“The greater power is not that which ushers in the new, but that able to make even the old new once more.” — Gene Ruyle Copy Share Image
All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will… — Okky Madasari Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely… — Alexandra Wentworth Copy Share Image
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
These days kids are not passionate. They lack will power to go all the way. They want to take the easy route. — Milkha Singh Copy Share Image
And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“There is power in his touch, power in the slightest look. He is a hard man who commands a billion-dollar enterprise, and… — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
Absolute truisms rot brains absolutely.[...]'Power corrupts' is useless as a tool for understanding the past, and gives us nothing as a guide… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image