Power Quotes - Page 50

[Religious belief is] outmoded and ridiculous. [Belief in gods was a] worn out but once useful crutch in mankind's journey towards truth. We consider the time has come for that crutch to be abandoned.It is a vacuous answer... To say that 'God made the world' is simply a more or less sophisticated way of saying that we don't understand how the universe originated. A god, in so far as it is anything, is an admission of ignorance. thundered over the horizon and in a few decades of observation and thought . . . arrived at an answer.I regard teaching religion as purveying lies. I came here today to de-corrupt you all.

I have only one power that is my power of love.

There seemed to be no one in a position of power, from the Vatican to Wall Street, from Parliament to Scotland Yard to Fleet Street, who could think of anything better to do than abuse it....

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Femininity is your greatest power. Embrace it!

Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.

Even freed men will do what they must in Rome.

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power.

Knowledge may be power, but cake has great bargaining properties

No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then our whole wayof seeing the world is turned upside down… all values are transformed… Godrefuses to play games of power and prestige on human terms.

The cosmos does not require God, Laplace said to himself. But Emperors require Him. All those who seek to subjugate human beings in one form or another require Him. Science does not need God.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Traditionally we associate power with the display of strength, winning, and having lots of money and prestige. I think we have power mixed up with the domination of others. It's time to redefine power. To have inner peace and spread that peace throughout the world, THAT is power.

And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.

The power of the word is completely misused in hell. We use the word to curse, to blame, to find guilt, to destroy. Of course, we also use it in the right way, but not too often. Mostly we use the word to spread our personal poison - to express anger, jealousy, envy, and hate. The words is pure magic - the most powerful gift we have as humans - and we use it against ourselves. We plan revenge. We create chaos with the word. We use the word to create hate between different races, between different people, between families, between nations. We misuse the word so often, and this misuse is how we create and perpetuate the dream of hell. Misuse of the word is how we pull each other down and keep each other in a state of fear and doubt.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.

Moira had power now, she’d been set loose, she’d set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.I think we found this frightening.

God’s grace is strong enough to hold me steady through every difficulty.

May the might power of the Holy Spirit renew our thoughts and attitudes.

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

The strength we find within ourselves gives us endurance and perseverance power.

The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when aroused, from being harmful to himself and his associates...Moreover, since politicians are divided into rival groups, they aim at similarly dividing the nation, unless they have the good fortune to unite it in war against some other nation.

You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style.

The worship of power is an old religion.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.

A leader must be taught or made to know the importance of justice for the people.

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

It is not real," he whispered. "This place is only a thought that has grabbed hold of you. It cannot harm you. You are not of this place, and it has no power over you. You do not need it, nor do you owe it your allegiance." I nodded, listening only to his words and not to the rattling of the windows, which had begun as soon as we stepped inside.

In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have need if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.

God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.

When you live in light, you live under God’s rulership.

Who's got the last laugh now?If you will pardon the expression.

I’m Power Because LOVE is Power.

The viscountess had raised the forefinger of her right hand and made a pretty gesture toward a stool at her feet. There was such intense tyrannical passion in the gesture that the marquis relinquished the doorknob and came back.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Power, a paycheck and control do sick things to those who have the illusion of possessing it.

You may bend, but you will not be broken.

Forgiveness is the only battery that can power our relationship with God and other men like us.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Words got the power to hurt or heal.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach.

They joined hands.So the world ended.And the next one began.

Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people to listen, you have opened your mind for them to read. Think positively; talk positively!

The true meaning of the 'samurai' is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.