Bad thing Quote by Alex Steffen Download Open image “Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.” — Alex Steffen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad thing Bad things Citizens Cynical People Powerful Powerful people
Leaders of nations, and people whose wealth or fame gives them power over the lives of others quite often do more harm than good. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
People who don't have as much power as they would like often begin by attributing their difficulties to the environment - competitors, bosses, economic… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
All powerful people make foolish decisions and end up in humiliating and embarrassing situations, as well as wielding their power. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it. — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth'… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
The brutal reality is that newer, more sprawling suburbs - and especially the cheap boom-years exburbs - aren't just a bit unsustainable, they're ruinously… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
We don't know yet how to build a society which is environmentally sustainable, which is shareable with everybody on the planet, which promotes stability… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I think the people I talk about are generally so stupid that they don't even know I'm saying bad things about them. I've run… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half… — Lights Copy Share Image
Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my business, you should be very strong in mind. You have to be sure about yourself and about your work and your career,… — Irina Shayk Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why I latched onto the idea of being friends, but it sits right with my gut. I want Hartley in my… — Erin Watt Copy Share Image
I'm just grateful to people who are willing to admit how bad things feel for them. — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing. — Matthew Rhys Copy Share Image
