Quotes About Maintaining Power

#1. A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.

Stephen Kinzer

#3. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman

#4. One means of worshipping Aphrodite was as, or through, a hierodule. The word means "sacred servant" but tends to be translated as "temple prostitute," missing the larger idea that sexuality and sensuality have spiritual power and energy,

Renna Shesso

#5. The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you.

David Lloyd

#6. The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.

Frederick Lenz

#7. In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.

Dillon Burroughs

#8. Maintaining the balance of power should be as fundamental to American foreign policy as the Bill of Rights is to domestic policy.

George Friedman

#9. Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect. It is about choice, and having the power to control how you present yourself to the world.

Bruce Schneier

#10. I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.

Alec Wilkinson

#11. Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

Jean Grae

#12. The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.

William Keepin

#13. The world's thoughts are games that are played. They aren't true, but they are agreements of the ways to think and act. The presently dominant thoughts are all built for the needs of maintaining hierarchical power.

Hannu

#14. You killed a tree?"
"It tried to kill me first."
"Perhaps you should tell me exactly what happened to you, Princess.

Lesley Livingston

#15. Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

Todd Tiahrt

#16. The power of positive thinking is vital for maintaining happiness, good
health and longevity.

Eraldo Banovac

#17. Her eyes don't leave her book, but I see her smile. It's like the inside of my chest hiccups or something at the sight.

Nyrae Dawn

#18. Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.

Horace Bushnell

#19. Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#20. Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.

Anais Nin

#21. Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

Ludwig Von Mises

#22. And so I love films that are kind of rural in atmosphere. And you know, it's just a nice place to be day after day. All be it, it can be hard, it can be hard work. You can get hot.

Keith Carradine

#23. People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

Don DeLillo

#24. Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

John Goodlad

#25. No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others.

John Craig

#26. Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.

C. JoyBell C.

#27. The Hollywood atmosphere of crises and continuous anxiety is a kind of hysteria which prevents people from thinking, and is not too different from the way dictators use wars and continuous threats of war as an emotional basis for maintaining their power.

Hortense Powdermaker

#28. I always want to sleep on the third date.

Blake Butler

#29. In the sense of worldly advantage, it no longer signified whether people thought of him as having been an authentic man of virtue. There was no more political power or influence
to be gained from maintaining that identity. But to him it still mattered.

Marisa Linton